Italian highways and byways from a motor car

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.

Account of the author's car trip around Italy "alla campagna", or, travelling where possible off the main highways through more remote area of the county via back roads. First Edition. 8vo. pp ix, 380. 80 plates, mostly coloured, from paintings and sketches by Blanche McManus, each behind a captioned tissue-guard; folding map of Italy. Publisher's original pea green cloth with gilt lettering and vignette to front board and gilt lettering to the spine. Top edge of the pages gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Titlepage printed in red and black with vignette. A couple of surface stains to lower board. Ex.libirs L. de Rothschild with Bookplate picturing a lion holding a staff and the text 'Concordia', 'Integritas', 'Industria', attributed to J. Leighton. A fine copy.