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Italian Villas and Their Gardens.
de Wharton, Edith; Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
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Sobre este artículo
New York: The Century Company, 1904. First edition of Wharton's classic treatise on "Italian garden-magic." Quarto, original dark green cloth, top edge gilt. With 45 full-page plates, including 26 illustrations by Maxfield Parrish (15 in color), seven in-text and 19 black-and-white photographic illustrations. In good condition, name to the front free endpaper. Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and Their Gardens, a seminal work on garden design, is a testament to the passionate connoisseurship of one of America’s greatest writers. A comprehensive look at the history and character of Italian garden architecture and ornamentation, the book explores more than seventy-five villas, capturing what Wharton calls their "garden-magic" and illuminating the intimate relationship between the house, its formal gardens, and the surrounding countryside. "...Parrish illustrations, in trademark dreamy, fairy-tale style--seems to dislocate these legendary gardens from time altogether" (Forbes).
Sinopsis
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University, and full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Dixon Hunt is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966) was a renowned American painter and illustrator.
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- Librería
- Raptis Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 139308
- Título
- Italian Villas and Their Gardens.
- Autor
- Wharton, Edith; Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- The Century Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1904
- Palabras clave
- Edith Wharton First Edition, Italian Villas and Their Gardens First Edition
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Art and Architecture;
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
