The makers of modern Rome. In four books, I: Honourable woman not a few; II: The popes who made the papacy; III: Lo popolo, and the tribune of the people; IV: The popes who made the City. With illustrations by Henry P. Riviere and Joseph Pennell.

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XX,507 p. Cloth 23 cm (Binding worn at the extremes. Occasionally foxed. Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown, engraved by H. Salt, with the motto ‘esse quam videri’, from Cicero’s ‘Laelius de Amicitia’, ch. 98: ‘Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt’) (Nice binding)