THE COLOUR OF ROME, Historic, Personal and Local. An Introduction by Douglas Sladen, and an Essay by the Artist. by POTTER, Olave Muriel and Yoshio MARKINO.: - 1909

London, Chatto & Windus, 1909.. FIRST EDITION 1909, LIMITED DE LUXE EDITION of 100 COPIES FOR SALE, THIS COPY IS NUMBER 9. Small 4to, approximately 260 x 195 mm, 10¼ x 7 ¾ inches, 48 colour plates, including frontispiece plus 12 sepia plates, all mounted with tissue guards and captioned in red, pages: xxx, 1-262 including index, publisher's full pictorial cream vellum, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, gilt picture to upper cover, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, marbled endapers. Spine slightly bumped at tail, corners a little worn at tips, spine slightly dusty, lower cover has a pale mark to outer edge, 10 colour plates have pale foxing to margins, 8 very light and 2 a little heavy, 2 sepia plates also affected by pale foxing to the margins, 1 heavy and the other light, occasional pale foxing to margins of text, some tissue guards a little creased and foxed, pale age browning to endpapers, tiny spot of addesion affecting last endpaper and pastedown, otherwise a very good copy. Yoshio Markino (1869 1956) was a Japanese artist and author who spent much of his life in London. In 1893 he enrolled at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco and stayed in the city for the next four years. In 1897 he went to London via New York, and settled in Chelsea where he spent most of his subsequent life and career (1897-1942). The Colour of London got critical acclaim and was followed in 1908 by The Colour of Paris and The Colour of Rome, and in 1912 by The Charm of London. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING.