Description: Rome by Francis Wey. Containing three hundred and forty-five engravings on wood. Designed by the most celebrated artists. With an introduction by W.W. Story. New Edition, revised and abridged. London: J.S. Virtue & Co., Limited. I don't see a date but the cataloging notation gives it as 1905. From Story's introduction: "... no illustrated book can compare with this. The range of pictures is very great - from the games of the people, the life of the streets, the priestly processions, the costumes and ceremonies of the Church, the fountains, the churches, palaces, and villas of today, to the paintings of the early Italian masters, the catacombs of the primitive Christians, the statues of ancient Rome, and the ruins of the city and the Campagna. A a matter of course the text is even wider in range, and it is a pleasant fortune in Mr. Wey's book that it is a sort of potpourri, like Rome itself, in which the new and the old, the romantic and the commonplace, the imposing and the ludicrous, elbow each other at every turn..." Book will be carefully packaged and shipped in a cardboard box.
Price: 39.95 USD
Location: Littleton, Massachusetts
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: London
Language: English
Special Attributes: Ex-Library, Illustrated
Author: Francis Wey
Region: Europe
Publisher: J.S. Virtue & Co., Limited
Topic: Historical
Subject: Exploration & Travel
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1905
