BOOKS: (16) Vols Ltd Ed 1906 Literature of Italy, The Literature of Italy 1265-1907. Edizione Vaticano. Edited by Rossiter Johnson and Dora Knowlton Ranous. Published by The National Alumni. 1906. Hardcover. 6 8 3/4 inches. Various pages. Each volume with a frontispiece, some in color, some volumes with additional plates. Volumes are not numbered. Volume titled "A History of Italian Literature" contains a decorated certificate of issue to the subscriber, signed by the editor. Complete in 16 volumes. Limited to 100 copies, each registered to a subscriber. This set prepared for Horace Holley Dall. Certificate of issue signed by Rossiter Johnson, Series editor and Secretary to The National Alumni. In vellum bindings with gold and red decoration, gilded top page edges, ribbon markers.

Fair, with Conquest of Rome with torn tissue overlay on frontispiece, three volumes with short splits at hinge, about half with darkened spines and roughened vellum, some boards slightly warped, be advised that all lots in this sale will exhibit some degree of wear due to age and/or handling