The Makers of Florence. Dante, Giotto, Savonarola and Their City. With Portrait of Savonarola Engraved by C.H. Jeens and Illustrations from drawings Professor Delamotte
by OLIPHANT, Mrs. [Margaret Oliphant Wilson]
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- Hardcover
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London. Macmillan and Co.1891. Hardcover. 12mo, 18.3cm, 3rd and cheaper edition,xx,422p., plates and illustrations, index, prize binding, in full crimson morocco, gilt decorated raised bands, gilt device decorations and titles in the panels, elaborate gilt border and device decorations on the upper cover, repeated in blind on the bottom board, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, a fine attractive fine prize binding, presentation label "V.h., M.O. & C.O. Moody, Lorne Lodge, Malvern", a fine copy in attractive unsigned fine binding (Ho2.1).
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- Bookseller
- Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35791
- Title
- The Makers of Florence. Dante, Giotto, Savonarola and Their City. With Portrait of Savonarola Engraved by C.H. Jeens and Illustrations from drawings Professor Delamotte
- Author
- OLIPHANT, Mrs. [Margaret Oliphant Wilson]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London. Macmillan and Co.1891
- Keywords
- PRIZE FINE MOROCCO BINDING
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Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
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