Italian Villas and Their Gardens
New York: The Century Co., 1907. Illustrated Maxfield Parrish. Original cloth boards decorated in gilt,colur frontis plate, colour and b&w plates with captioned tissue guards, top edge gilt, pp xii, 270. With the bookplare of "The Library at Carolands" ffep (the Californian Gilded Age Mansion). Small San Francisco bookseller label rear endpaper. Early reprint: presumed third printing. Front board, upper spine and corners lightly rubbed, light scuffing spine, foot of spine more heavily rubbed with some fraying. All plates present and in excellent condtion. Very good condition.
Detailed, scholarly study of villas and garden architecture by the novelist, garden designer and interior designer and traveller Edith Wharton, lavishly illustrated by Maxfield Parrish and by photographs. Item #101325
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