Author: WHARTON, EDITH; MAXFIELD PARRISH (ILLUSTRATED BY)
Title: Italian Villas and Their Gardens
Description: New York, The Mount Press / Rizzoli. 2008, First Thus. (ISBN: 139780847831159). Decorated embossed green cloth, 10 1/2" x 7". 270 pages. A facsimile of the first edition published in 1904, "including twenty-six original paintings by Maxfield Parrish" - color and b&w - and a brief history of seventy-five villas and their gardens. The first edition was published with decorative stamping on the front cover, but without a dustjacket, which has been created for this facsimile and which is enclosed in a Brodart removable sleeve. "Elegantly written, informed by Wharton's intelligence and wit." Small "publisher's" bump at the bottom of the front joint Clean throughout; tight binding; as new. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Edith Wharton Maxfield Parrish Italian Villas Gardens Architecture Gardening Landscape Watercolors Italy Travel Italian Architecture History Architecture Gardening 139780847831159


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