Large 8vo. 142pp. With a terminal colophon leaf. Original publisher's blue paper boards quarter bound over white paper lettered gilt. All edges roughly trimmed, some leaves unopened. Internally bright and clean save a little foxing to endpapers. One of 500 copies, this numbered 490.

Alethea Wiel (1851-1929), British author and Italophiliac, who wrote several Italian histories throughout her career, and was married to Italian musicologist, composer and assistant librarian of the Venice Biblioteca Marciana, Cavaliere Taddeo Wiel.