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In 1903 Edith Wharton was commissioned by Century Magazine to write a series of articles on Italian villas and gardens. She gathered her household together and set off with her husband, her housekeeper and her small dogs on a four-month tour of Italy. Her articles were published in 1904 as Italian Villas and their Gardens. One of the first books to treat the subject of Italian garden architecture seriously, it influenced a generation of garden writers and landscape architects. Nearly 100 years later, photographer and writer Vivian Russell set out on her own odyssey, following Edith Wharton's footsteps around Italy to photograph the best surviving gardens from her book and to tell the story of how each one was made. her lively text describes the patrons and architects who created the gardens and explores their hidden symbolic meaning.

1st edition fine in fine jacket, not price clipped no inscriptions as new

4to. 192 pp. 200 color, 30 b/w illustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (86642).

Stated first edition. Price clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps. Illustrated. Light shelf wear; interior clean.