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Italian Villas and Their Gardens
by Wharton, Edith
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
New York: The Century Co.. 1907. 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. 3rd Printing. Boards.
Synopsis
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University, and full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Dixon Hunt is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966) was a renowned American painter and illustrator.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Muir Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 101325
- Title
- Italian Villas and Their Gardens
- Author
- Wharton, Edith
- Illustrator
- Illustrated Maxfield Parrish
- Format/Binding
- Boards
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 3rd Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Century Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- Architecture, Design, Gardens, Illustrated, Italy, Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Muir Books
Biblio member since 2006
Perth, Western Australia
About Muir Books
MUIR BOOKS. Western Australia's largest and leading rare, secondhand, antiquarian and out of print bookshop, established in 1973 and managed by Rob & Janet Muir together with Tara Surry. We have over 50,000 books in stock. We are located in Perth (precinct of Northbridge), walking distance from the State Library, Art Gallery and Museum.
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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