The History of Italy (1549) William Thomas
1963. First Edition. 145 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Some underlining. Signs of water damage. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Boards are heavily bowed.