Description

This is a very good 3 volume hardcover set in the original light green cloth and vellum spines publisher's bindings, titled and decorated in gilt. Top page-edges all gilt. All volumes uniformly bound with their leather spine labels intact, volumes 1 & 2 labels are a little sunned (light brown), volume 3 label is dark brown. Volume 1: Italy, x, 200 text pages + 6 color plates including frontispiece + many black & white photographic plates + drawings and plans in the text. Volume 2: England, xii, 228 text pages, + 4 color plates + many black & white photographic plates + drawings and plans in the text. Volume 3: France, xiii, 220 text pages + 3 color plates + many black & white photographic plates + drawings and plans in the text. All volumes very clean internally, a few tan spots to endpapers, or slight offsetting to endpapers. Outside the vellum spines are clean, gilt titles bright. Two spines a little toned to a honey color, the third still cream colored vellum. A little faint soil externally, but overall a very clean beautiful 3 volume set in the original bindings and not x-library, or marked in any way. Cambridge University Press, 1921-22-23. 10" high X 8" wide. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.