Handsome first edition of this wonderfully illustrated book, with 70 captioned tissue-guarded colour plates painted by Alberto Pisa Pisa (1864-1936), was a noted Italian painter best known for his landscape watercolours of ruins, and garden views of Rome, Pompeii, Florence, and the Italian countryside and people in Ferrara. Item Description First published 1905. Beautifully and colourfully illustrated with coloured frontispiece ‘Marble Relief of the Ambarvalia Sacrifice, in the Forum’, and 69 tissue-guarded fine colour plates painted by the Italian artist Alberto Pisa. Text by M.A.R. Tuker and Hope Malleson. Published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1905. Publisher’s original dark blue cloth boards with Roman design in black, and olive on front cover and spine. Gilt title on spine and upper board. Top edges gilt. Book Dimensions: 23 x 17 x 4.5 cm and Number of Pages: 267 including index + 8 pages of publisher's books. Condition The book is beautifully bound, designed and illustrated. A well-preserved copy. Firm, and well bound. External covers in nice shape, with light wear to corners and spine ends. Internally the book is in very good condition indeed. A prize label dated 1915 on inside front cover page. All pages are tightly held at the gutter. Inner hinges are very good. Pages are very clean, and unmarked. Text is fresh. All plates are present and in excellent condition (Please see pictures).