300 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt, Top Edge Gilt. First Printing, First Issue, With Dent On Title Page And Spine. Light Wear, Spine Faintly Sunned, Fraying Along Top Of Spine, Pinpoint Frays At Tips, A Few Tears At Top/Bottom Of Spine, 1/8" Or Less With One Frayed Area Up To 1/4" Deep (Possibly A Frayed Pull-Tear), Gilt Bright. Inscribed "Colonel De Filippi From His Friend Edward Hutton With All Good Wishes December 25, 1918", And With The Small And Very Old Armorial Bookplate Of Joan Redfern. Hutton Was A Prolific Historian Of Italy And Italians, And Wrote Many Travel Books As Well. During The First World War, Hutton Was Sent To Italy On A Special Mission By The Then Permanent Under-Secretary For Foreign Affairs, Sir Eyre Crowe (1864-1925). He Was Kept There For Nearly Two Years, At The End Of Which Time He Was Lent To The Italian Authorities To Work For The Italian Foreign Action Bureau Under Filippo De Filippi In England. In 1918 Hutton Founded The Anglo-Italian Review. Two Articles Written By Hutton In The Review Prompted Arthur Serena (D. 1922, A Shipbroker And Son Of The Venetain Patriot Leone Serena) To Come To Him For Advice On How He Might Further The Cause Of Italian Studies In Britain. Hutton Suggested That Serena Should Found Italian Professorships At Oxford And Cambridge And Made The Necessary Proposals To Their Vice-Chancellors. Serena Provided Half The Cost Of The New Chairs And The Universities Found The Rest. In 1917 Edward Hutton Was One Of The Founders Of The British Institute In Florence. In 1928 He Converted To Catholicism And Dedicated Much Of His Time To Catholic Issues. In 1943 Hutton Was Called On By The Political Department Of The Foreign Office To Write Detailed Descriptions Of The Various Italian Provinces, Nineteen Volumes In All, And To Each Of These He Appended, On His Own Initiative, A List Of Works Of Art Which Should Be Protected.

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Title

Ravenna

Publisher

J. M. Dent & Sons, London

Publication Date

1913

Language

English

Binding

Red Cloth

Illustrator

Color Plates By H. Sund

Edition

First Edition, First Printing

Condition

Very Good

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