(London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1918).

A STUNNING BOOK, AND STUNNING CONDITION AND THE BEST EDITION, THE FIRST TO INCLUDE 64 PLATES. While there is certainly no shortage of books about Italy to be found, this one book stands out among them. It is a general tour of the entire country, providing a glimpse at all the major areas and the countryside spanning from Lake Como to Sicily. The sixty-four colourplates (there were only thirty-two in the previous printing) are produced in A. & C. Black s best style and quality and employed a variety of the finest artists who worked for them. Included here are paintings by Alberto Pisa and others. Item #70084

First Edition thus. With 64 beautiful and finely produced colourplates by various artists with captioned tissue-guards, and with a map of Italy at the end of the volume. 4to, publisher's original sea-blue cloth with all over decorations to the upper cover and spine panel featuring a vineyard motif--- green, black, yellow and purple, the upper cover lettered in black, the spine lettered in gilt, I xi, 206 pp. A very fine, very bright, very clean and beautifully preserved copy. Near as pristine.