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Travel to the lakes of Northern Italy, includes chapters on Lakes Lugano, Como, Di Lecco, Bellagio, Cadenabbia, and the Tremezzina. The Comagina, Pliny and the Villa Pliniana, the City of Como, Lago Maggiore, Lago D'Orta, Bergamo and Lago D'Iseo
Item Description
This original copy is beautifully and colourfully illustrated with sixty eight tissue-guarded fine colour plates including frontispiece, painted by the British artist Ella Du Cane. Published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1912. Publisher’s original blue cloth boards with embossed art nouveau design in purple, yellow, and green. Gilt stamped title and colour designed lake illustration on front cover. Gilt title and colour illustration on spine. Top edges gilt.
Book Dimensions: 23 x 17 x 4 cm and Number of Pages: 201 including index + 8 pages of books illustrated by Ella Du Cane
Condition
A well-preserved copy. Firm and well bound. The book is in very good condition with very minor wear to the extremities of the cover. Internally the book is in very good condition. No names or inscriptions. Pages are clean, with light foxing to the half title page, and fore edge and very occasional spots scattered throughout the book. Inner hinges are very good, and pages are firmly held at gutters. The plates and their tissue guards are clean and bright (Nice Firm copy) (Please see pictures).
Richard Bagot was an English author and essayist known most widely for his articles and reviews of Italian art and letters. Bagot also wrote a number of fiction works, such as 'Donna Diana', 'Love's Proxy', and 'The Passport', however, it was his work on Italy that earned him not only an international reputation, but also his honours in Italy.
Ella Du Cane who was best known for her watercolours of landscapes and exotic locales. Cane came into artistic prominence in 1893 when she exhibited at an exhibition of the prestigious 'New Society of Painters in Water Colours', with Queen Victoria taking a personal interest in her work. Upon gaining fame and success, Cane took the opportunity to travel, exhibiting her watercolour drawings of the West Indies in 1902 and a show of pictures of Japan in 1904. From this, Cane was hired by A & C Black to provide illustrations for this text.
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