Florence
( The PICTURE GUIDES ) GAUTHIEZ, Pierre
[The Picture Guides series].
NEAR FINE COPY
Published: Medici Society, [1926]
Stock code: 32337
Price: £24.00
4to., First Edition, with sepia-toned title-vignette, very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text and folding map; original series binding of terracotta cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy.
With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.