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Hard cover, 16mo, in olive green cloth, with pictorial design blocked within a gilt-ruled border featuring an art deco style swag between fleur de lis featuring flowers and ribbons, and suspending a shield in gold, light blue and green. The author's name below is within a scroll. The cover artist's signature is in monogram to the lower left of the front board.**Copyright 1901, L.C. Page. Publisher's boxed ad at front lists five additional titles to the series. Top edges gilt, remaining edges untrimmed. Vol.1, 225 pp, includes index. Vol. II 254pp.** A history and art guide to the best of Renaissance Florence meant as a tourist guide or memento. **CONDITION: Good. Lacking title page to Vol. II. A few light marks to boards, with the spines gently sunned. Gilt bright with slight rubbing. Inside, hinge 2 inch front hinge break Vol.I, title page lacking Vol.II. Text is moderately toned and shows some foxing when facing illustrations. Still, this would make a wonderful display on a collector's vintage travel display shelf.**AUTHOR: Ontario-born, Oxford-educated man of letters, Grant Allen (1848-1899), in addition to penning works on travel, was also prolifically churning out works on the topics of evolution, naturalism, socialism, science fiction, and some other quite radical ideas. His volume entitled "The Woman Who Did," (1895 ) for instance, was part of the Keynote Series published by John Lane, and with its art by Beardsley, is considered a humdinger of First Wave Feminism. (N. Ruddick, Oxford Bibliographies). OCLC1141974.
Ref: ADV 9240
$40.00