A. & C. BLACK - AUSTIN, Alfred (author). George S. ELGOOD (illustrator). William SCOTT (headpieces and vignettes). Lamia's Winter-Quarters. London; Adam And Charles Black. 1907.
8vo. Original cloth, lettered in gilt, ornamented in black and orange; pp. xvii, 164, [4, advertisements]; 16 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white vignettes; light spotting to cloth and occasionally internally.
First edition. Appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 Austin describes here in prose and poetry a sojourn in a Tuscan Villa above Florence with the occasional excursion to Northern Italian beauty spots.
Inman 162.
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