Hardback. Beautiful limited edition study of Italian votive tablets with over 100 colour plates. Text in English. Number 112 of 500 copies “Of this volume in English translation, have been printed only 500 copies numbered and intend not for sale, but as gifts for Christmas 1960”. Substantial introductory essay illustrated with tipped in black and white plates. 116 tipped in colour plates with notes. Index of illustrations. Bibliography. List of Italy’s churches with existing votive tablets. Bound in cream cloth, colour illustrated to the front and with printed label to the spine. Softened to spine ends. Cloth is unevenly tanned. There is a faint splash mark to the closed upper edges of the pages. Foxed to endpapers and prelims. Text is clean and free of marks and the plates are bright and crisp.