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ALEXANDER, Francesca. Christ's folk in the apennine. Reminiscences of her friends among the tuscan peasantry.

Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent. George Allen, 1887. First edition in book form.
8vo. x, 264pp. With a half-title. Contemporary blind-tooled navy calf, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G. Rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp.
The first edition in book form (Originally issued as a part work, each part being sold separately at one shilling in printed wrappers) of Francesca Alexander's (1837-1917) account of the social life and customs of the residents of Tuscany, edited by John Ruskin (1819-1900)
£ 58.75 Antiquates Ref: 28708