8vo. x, [2], 304pp, [3]. With numerous photographic illustrations in the text, full-page photographic portraits of Louisa Temple Leader and John Temple Leader (Knight Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy). Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges red. Rubbed, some chipping to joints. Upper hinge exposed, armorial bookplate of publisher Thomas Fisher Unwin (1848-1935) to FEP, FFEP detached.

Lucy Baxter (1837-1902) a writer on art, whose publications appeared under the pseudonym of Leader Scott - a combination of the maiden names of her grandmothers. Her works consist primarily of popularisations of scholarly research on Florentine art and artists. The present work provides and account of the history and restoration of the Castello di Vincigliata, Florence.