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The Last of the Medici done into English / by Harold Acton ; with introduction by Norman Douglas.

Accession number
PML 134852
Published
Florence : Privately printed for subscribers by G. Orioli, Lungarno Corsini, 1930.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
This work is said to have been written by Luca Ombrosi. It was published for the first time in 1886 by Filippo Orlando and Giuseppe Baccini as a second volume to Bibliotechina Grassoccia which they edited. The original is a part of a manuscript entitled "Storia della nobile e reale casa de 'Medici," located in the Biblioteca moreniana of Florence. Cf. p. 29-30.
Series on 1st half-title.
"Printed in Florence by the Tip. Franceschini"--T.p. verso.
"Of this limited edition, printed on Binda hand-made paper, 365 copies have been printed of which 350 are for sale"--Preliminary leaf.
Library has no. 312.
Title vignette.
Frontispiece accompanied by protective sheet.
In publisher's dust jacket.
Description
159, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 23 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department