WHARTON, Edith. - Italian Villas and Their Gardens.

"The traveller returning from Italy, full of the ineffable Italian garden-magic, knows that it is more potent, more enduring, more intoxicating to every sense than the most elaborate and glowing effects of modern horticulture."

WHARTON, Edith.

Italian Villas and Their Gardens. New York: The Century Co., 1904.

First edition.

Quarto. xii, 270 pp., with color frontispiece, fourteen color plates, thirty duotone plates, and six black and white text illustrations. Title in black and green, text in black and brown. Green publisher's cloth, spine stamped in gilt, front cover decorated in color and gilt, top edges gilt. Bookplate of M. A. Low to front pastedown. Some edge-wear and soiling to extremities, corners bumped, front hinge cracked but sound, soiling to pp. 242-3. Overall still a very good copy of this lovely work.

First edition of this stunning tribute to Italian architecture and gardens, illustrated by Maxfield Parrish and with contemporary photographs.

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ID: 8709

$ 1,250

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