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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Eighth edition (revised). Eighth (revised) Edition; the first was printed 1884. Hard cover, 12mo, bound in black leather-covered (flexible) boards with double rules of red horizontally across the boards and spine, between which are titles blocked in gold. Curved corners to boards. Text block edges are stained red, with glazed black end papers, and illustrated with some black and white illustrations and many halftone photo reproductions, and a foldout color map frontispiece of the city center. Printed at Ballantyne Hanson & Co., Edinburgh, upon smooth coated paper. Price Three Shillings and sixpence net. Advertising appears on the front endpapers. viii, [1]-320pp., plus 2 pp. ads. **CONDITION: Very Good. Light edge wear seen at head and foot of spine, rear board, and along joints. Hinges in order. A few dog eared pages. Lightly toned pages. A former owner's signature in old ink to the Half title, dated 1922.**The city's historical and artistic highlights are referenced at-a-glance with handy Medici family genealogy, lists of Renaissance painters, sculptors and architects, as well as plans of some of Florence's most famous museums, the Pitti and the Uffizi Galleries. Motor travel routes are mapped. A guide to day-excursions from the city center forms the basis of the text, along with highlights to be found of the art in so many of Florence's churches, chapels and cathedral. A useful guide to the visitor. **English travel book innovator AUTHOR Augustus J.C. Hare (1834-1903) wrote a number of popular travel books, many of Italian origin, during a varied career as an Author and successful artist. He came from a family of writers and artists. He was born in Rome, although educated in England, first near the ancestral family seat in Herstmonceux, East Sussex and later at Oxford. The Joseph Hare Society shares a number of ghost stories collected during his travels, taken from his journals and letters. Co-Author Welbore St Clair Baddersley, (1856-1945), a good friend of the artist J.M. Whistler, edited the later editions, which due to their popularity, were updated on a regular basis. Book.