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The Merchant of Prato

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Item Details

Description

Title: The Merchant of Prato

Description: FIRST EDITION WITH SLIPCASE.

Publishers maroon cloth boards with gilt vignette.

Gilt title and vignette to spine.

Contrasting slipcase.

Frontispiece portrait colour plate.

Full-page colour plates.

Francesco Di Marco Da Prato Datini (1335-1410),

'Italian international merchant and banker whose business

and private papers, preserved in Prato, constitute one

of the most important archives of the economic history

of the Middle Ages'

A very lovely copy.

Product Details: Publisher

The Folio Society., London

Author

Iris Origo

Date Published

1984

Binding

Hardback with slipcase

Condition

Very Good

Weight

1056g

Reserve: $15.00

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