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Plain-Towns of Italy. The Cities of Old Ventia
by Williams, Egerton R., Jr
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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911.
8vo. 210 x 145 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ¾ inches]. xxiv, 603 pp. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece and a folding map, and 58 photo reproductions printed on glossy paper in the text. Publisher's decorated green cloth and spine; showing minor wear and very little fading of the cloth. With the book and signature of Carleton Potter Small on the front endpapers and some pencil notations on the rear endpaper and a few checkmarks on the table of contents and the list of illustrations. A very good copy.
First edition, designed by Bruce Rogers and very nicely printed and bound at the Riverside Press, Boston. This work, "endeavors to be an exposition of the whole region of the Venetia, setting forth all its towns and countryside worth visiting, in the realms of history, art, and natural beauty. . ." Included are descriptions of Brenta, Padua, Vicenza, Bassano, Treviso, Undine, Verona, Brescia, Ferrara, and Rovigo to name the most prominent cities Williams visited.
Egerton Williams was the author of a number of other books on Italy, the most famous of which are The Hill Towns of Italy, the companion volume to this work published in 1904, and his study of the Province of Lombardy which was published in 1914. Williams's works were highly esteemed for their connoisseurship and a number edition of each were published over the next 75 years. (916)
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- Plain-Towns of Italy. The Cities of Old Ventia
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- Williams, Egerton R., Jr
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- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1911
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De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.
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