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1909 Legends and Stories of Italy For Children
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Description
Colour Plates, Decorative Binding, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
The first edition of the work.
In publisher's original decorative cloth binding, with a green spine and brown boards. Includes gilt top edge and decorative green endpapers.
With a frontispiece and 11 further pictures. Collated, complete.
This charming first edition of the volume holds numerous Italian legends and saint stories that were popular from the time of the Romans to the Middle Ages, such as 'The Legend of the Christmas Rose' and 'A Tale of Old Florence'. These fascinating tales are brought to life with Cameron's colourful illustrations that accompany the legends of the volume throughout.
Condition
In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Bumping to spine, resulting in splitting of cloth to front joint and cracking to extremities. Odd mark on boards with slight fading to the front. Decorative endpapers are excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are clean and bright with spotting, most significant to the front and rear.
Good
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