Alberto Pisa - Rome - 1905

Handsome first edition of this wonderfully illustrated book, with 70 captioned tissue-guarded colour plates painted by Alberto Pisa

Item Description
Lovely copy, and scarce in this condition. First published 1905. Beautifully and colourfully illustrated with coloured frontispiece ‘Marble Relief of the Ambarvalia Sacrifice, in the Forum’, and 69 tissue-guarded fine colour plates painted by the Italian artist Alberto Pisa (Pisa (1864-1936), was a noted Italian painter best known for his landscape watercolours of ruins, and garden views of Rome, Pompeii, Florence, and the Italian countryside and people in Ferrara). Text by M.A.R. Tuker and Hope Malleson.

Published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1905. Publisher’s original dark blue cloth boards with Roman design in black, and olive on front cover and spine. Gilt title on spine and upper board. Top edges gilt.

Book Dimensions: 23 x 17 x 4.5 cm and Number of Pages: 267 including index.

Condition
The book is beautifully bound, designed and illustrated. Firm, and well bound copy. External covers are in nice shape and clean, slightly worn at corners and spine ends. Internally the book is in fine condition indeed. Neat label with name and illustrations on inside front cover page. All pages are tightly held at the gutter. Inner hinges are very good. Pages are very clean, with occasional light foxing to few pages. All colour plates are present and bright (Please see pictures).