The Rise and Fall of The House of Medici - first UK edition

by Christopher Hibbert

First Edition. Hardcover. True first printing. Slightly nicer than the US edition as the pictures are glossy instead of flat. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. 8vo, black boards, silver lettering on spine, 364 pp, index; 44 B&W illus; 2 maps, genealogical tables on end papers. History of the famous Florentine banking family who provided the world with some of its most colorful soldiers, art patrons, collectors, builders. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles of drawings and paintings on glossy paper. The embodiment of the Italian renaissance, the Medici were an enormously rich Florentine banking family.