THE NAPLES RIVIERA de Vaughan Herbert M - 1908

New York: Fredrick A. Stokes Company, 1908. The second printing, identical to the first. With 25 fine colouplates illustrations from the paintings of Maurice Greiffenhagen. 8vo, in an especially handsome Bickers & Son binding of full navy blue crushed morocco, the covers elaborately paneled in gilt, the spine with tall raised bands gilt ruled between gilt paneled compartments, two compartments and a smaller one at the tail gilt lettered, board edges and turn-ins gilt ruled, the turn-ins wide with further gilt work, t.e.g. xii, 326 pp. A fine copy in a fine and attractive binding. A BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN TRAVEL BOOK WITH FINE COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS VERY HANDSOMELY PRESENTED IN AN EXCELLENT BICKERS & SON FULL MOROCCO BINDIING. The text and illustrations include Vesuvius, Pompeii, Paestum, Capri, Sorrento, and more. Maurice Greiffenhagen was a Royal Academician known for painting idyllic landscapes and, due to his close friendship with H. Rider Haggard, illustrating books. Greiffenhagen's 1891 painting, 'An Idyll', inspired D H Lawrence's novel The White Peacock. Lawrence once stated, "As for Greiffenhagen's 'Idyll', it moves me almost as if I were in love myself. Under its intoxication, I have flirted madly this Christmas.