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Johnson, Virginia W. The Lily of Arno. Or, Florence Past and Present. Illustrated. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, Publishers, [1891]. – Octavo, illustrated white boards, gilt decorations to spine and upper cover, top edge gilt, ribbon marker,, x, 354 pp. Illus. with b & w tissue protected photographic plates.text, cracked in endpaper but no weakness to the binding, binding: mark red on the 4 th plate but goodContents: The Street of the Watermelon; A Florence Window; The Shrine of the Five Lampas; Church Towers: The Ave Maria of Dawn, The Masquerade of the Winds, A Jewel-Box, A Pot of Geranium, A Blackbird, A Vesper Bell; Country Bells: The Ancient Mother, A Rose of Vallombrosa, The Cypress-Tree; By the City Gate; Those Who Came After; In the Church of the Lily; The Christ Child; A Chord of Music; Three Pictures: A Monk’s Cell, The Autumn Leaf, The Respected Citizen; In a Church Niche; The Story-Teller; From the Laboratory of a Prince; The Bronze Boar; A Silver Lamp; The Stranger Colony: Galileo’s Disciple, The God Mars, A Brach of Almond Blossoms; The Grasshopper’s Festival; On the Arno; The Window Closed; Index. European History, Italy, Travel, Florence, Decorative Books