Rome

London: Chatto, Windus, Piccadilly, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. First English edition. Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly. Owner's book plate "From the Books of Crosby Gaige," on front pastedown. Front hinge neatly repaired, very good with moderate tears along the back hinge, in the original patterned cloth pictorial covers with soiling to the boards and darkening to the spine, without dustwrapper. Crosby Graige was a celebrated Broadway theatrical producer, fine press publisher and book collector, and author of numerous books on food, wine, and cocktails.