• Wonders of Italy by Joseph Fattorusso, 1952 Medici Art Series - front cover
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  • Wonders of Italy by Joseph Fattorusso, 1952 Medici Art Series - fleur-de-lis endpapers
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Wonders of Italy

Wonders of Italy

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Condition: Good

Book Notes: Spine ends frayed and worn; rubbing to the joints and edges; a few dark marks on the rear board; gilt bright on the front board. Binding sound; pages clean. Ex-library (The Arts Center, Albany, N.Y.): call-number label taped to the spine, library stamp on the front free endpaper, green cloth tape at the rear hinge, card pocket and circulation card on the rear pastedown.

Author(s): Joseph Fattorusso
Edition: Eleventh Final Edition

Print: Second Reprint

Publication year: 1952

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Giuseppe Fattorusso

Condition: Good
ISBN:

A one-volume illustrated handbook to Italy for students and travellers, from The Medici Art Series. It covers the monuments of antiquity, the churches, the palaces and the treasures of art, together with history, biography, religion, literature and folklore, and includes chronological and genealogical tables of former sovereign houses and notable figures. The title page calls for 700 pages, 3275 illustrations from photographs and twenty-two full-page plates in colour.

Florence: Giuseppe Fattorusso, Eleventh Final Edition, 1952, Second Reprint. Printed in Italy. Burgundy binding with gilt borders and fleur-de-lis, fleur-de-lis patterned endpapers.

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