Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife. January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904. Illustrated from Drawings and Photographs

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Blue cloth-covered boards, titled and ruled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; ix,[1]-324pp. Bright, tight copy with text fresh and unmarked; Very Good or better. Ownership signature to front free endpaper (Anna Brooke Purcell, Richmond, Virginia; dated 1919).

Vignettes of Italian travel and residence in Rome by Mary King Waddington, wife of Anglo-French statesman William Henry Waddington, who served as Prime Minister of France from February to December, 1879 and as the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1883 to 1893.