Author: HARCOURT-SMITH Simon
Title: The Marriage at Ferrara.
Description: John Murray,, [1952]. 8vo., First Edition, with a full-page map and 4 plates, some moderate offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, uncut, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Harcourt-Smith's classic biography of Lucrezia Borgia is based entirely on the correspondence of the period and drawn from Italian archives of the sixteenth century. With a personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Uncommon in this condition.

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