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A Child of Tuscany (Classic Reprint)

Author : Marguerite Bouvet
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483273269
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book A Child of Tuscany (Classic Reprint) written by Marguerite Bouvet and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Child of Tuscany Day have the good fortune to know the quaint and beautiful city where I have laid the scene of this little story; for among all the cities of Europe there is none more interesting, and which people learn to love better, than Florence, Florence, the fairest and most famous of the daughters of Rome! As Dante calls her. You have doubtless seen on your maps that Florence is situated in the northern part of Italy. It is a city of noble antiquity, having existed, some historians tell us, as early as the Roman period. In the twelfth century it was already the most important town of Tuscany, and after wards became the capital of the independent duchy of that name; and there the princes and dukes held their court. In 1861 all the provinces of Italy were united into one kingdom under Victor Emmanuel, and the court was removed to Rome, 1870. But Florence is still visited every spring by many of the nobility of Europe, on account. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Tuscan Childhood (Classic Reprint)

Author : Lisi Cipriani
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266898467
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book A Tuscan Childhood (Classic Reprint) written by Lisi Cipriani and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Tuscan Childhood This is pathetic. I might have added that as the Bible says that the last shall be first, and the first shall be last, those at the head and the tail have some hope of relief, if their present situation is not satisfactory; but those who are in the middle have evidently no prospect Of change and must bear their trials for ever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

In Unknown Tuscany (Classic Reprint)

Author : Edward Hutton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267853854
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book In Unknown Tuscany (Classic Reprint) written by Edward Hutton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In Unknown Tuscany Otber book in any language. T bis side of tbe book, tben, its appeal to tbe student of Italian History, would bave been infinitely less valuable - ar even non-existent - if Mr. Heywood bad not appeared at tbe opportune moment be did, or if, appearing, be bad not given up a great part of bis life to tbc study of Sienese History. And so wbile I am responsible for tbe text of tbc book, and be for tbc notes, witbout tbc assistance of wbicb I bave spoken tko text would bave been mucb less precise and mucb less valuable tban I bope it is. E. H. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Under the Tuscan Sun

Author : Frances Mayes
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767917456
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Under the Tuscan Sun written by Frances Mayes and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane—now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword “This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house and, always, the pleasures of food, would make a perfect gift for a loved one. But it’s so delicious, read it first yourself.”—USA Today For more Frances Mayes, including a tour of her now iconic Cortona home, Bramasole, watch PBS’s Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special! More than twenty years ago, Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeys—whether that be flying to a foreign country in search of themselves, savoring one of the book’s dozens of delicious seasonal recipes, or simply being transported by Mayes’s signature evocative, sensory language. Now with a new afterword from Frances Mayes, the twentieth-anniversary edition of Under the Tuscan Sun revisits the book’s most popular characters.

Walks People in Tuscany (Classic Reprint)

Author : Francis Patrick Fletcher Vane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330827529
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Walks People in Tuscany (Classic Reprint) written by Francis Patrick Fletcher Vane and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Walks People in Tuscany About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Child of Tuscany

Author : Marguerite Bouvet
Publisher : Hansebooks
ISBN 13 : 9783348101356
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Child of Tuscany written by Marguerite Bouvet and published by Hansebooks. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Child of Tuscany is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Tuscan Feasts

Author : Dorothy Nevile Lees
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332975702
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Tuscan Feasts written by Dorothy Nevile Lees and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tuscan Feasts: And Tuscan Friends Assisi OF st. Francis. Fully Illustrated in Colour and Otherwise. Large Fcap. 4to, zos. Net. Crown 4to, 425. Net. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Diamond Cut Diamond

Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332152042
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Diamond Cut Diamond written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Diamond Cut Diamond: A Story of Tuscan Life What did the per contra consist in? What was the nature of the ill-fortune that could avail so to counterbalance all the above-rehearsed elements of good, as to make it doubtful which scale might ulti mately be found to kick the beam? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Child-Life in Italy

Author : Emily H. Watson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484030595
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Child-Life in Italy written by Emily H. Watson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Child-Life in Italy: A Story of Six Years Abroad Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 186 5, by' i J. E. Tilton company, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Road in Tuscany, Vol. 1 of 2

Author : Maurice Hewlett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330745489
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book The Road in Tuscany, Vol. 1 of 2 written by Maurice Hewlett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Road in Tuscany, Vol. 1 of 2: A Commentary I never heard of a guide-book to Italy devised upon such a plan. Herr Baedeker loves the train; Mr. Murray, disembodied from the fetters of time and space, seems to ﬂit from museum to museum, no eye remarking his means of locomotion; the late Professor Ruskin seldom left the pulpit; the late Mr. Grant Allen never left the schoolroom. You must, indeed, go back to the old road-books of our grandfathers' day, which made the mile stones their first object of interest, the turnpikes their second, the inns their third, and crowded into the last column their references to Livy, Politian, Virgil, Catullus, Dante, and Slawken bergius, their lapidary lore, temples of Vesta, and battlefields of Hannibal; and in the notes might or might not tell you that Raphael's Saz'm' Ce ez'lz'a was in the gallery of Bologna, and Giulio Romano's War of Me Giants at Mantua remark ably fine. I have abandoned the mile-stones, the turnpikes; but I have never lain at a good inn without saying so, and as for Dante and Virgil, I Should like to know the man who could travel any part of Italy north of the Tiber and keep them out of the country; rather, I had better'say, I should not like to know him at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Road in Tuscany, Vol. 2 of 2

Author : Maurice Hewlett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365291527
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Road in Tuscany, Vol. 2 of 2 written by Maurice Hewlett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Road in Tuscany, Vol. 2 of 2: A Commentary From his high grass bastion at Lucca, San Donato pointed me the way across the marsh, his pastoral staff benevolently extended Outlook of over waving fields of buttercups. San Donato There was no wind that morning for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Child in Florence (Classic Reprint)

Author :
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483574946
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book A Child in Florence (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Child in Florence WE lived in that same Casa Guidi from whose windows Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poet eyes saw what she afterward put into glowing verse. Casa Guidi is a great pile of graystone, a pile of many windows which give upon the Via Maggio and a little piazza, as the squares in Florence are called. Consequently it is lighter and brighter than are many of the houses in Florence, where the streets are nar row and the houses lofty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Child of Pleasure (Classic Reprint)

Author : Gabriele D'Annunzio
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781451007145
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Child of Pleasure (Classic Reprint) written by Gabriele D'Annunzio and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Child of Pleasure D'annunzio comes to remind us, very definitely, as only an Italian can, of the reality and the beauty of sen sation, of the primary sensations; the sensations of pain and pleasure as these come to us from our actual physi cal conditions; the sensation of beauty as it comes to us from the sight of our eyes and the tasting of our several senses; the sensation of love, coming up from a root in Boccaccio, through the stem of Petrarch, to the very ﬂower of Dante. And so he becomes the idealist of ma terial things, while seeming to materialize spiritual things. He accepts, as no one else of our time does, the whole physical basis of life, the spirit which can be known only through the body, the body which is but clay in the shaping or destroying hands of the spirit. And, in Spite of a certain affectation of ideas, not always quite happily selected from Nietzsche and others, he takes nature very simply, getting sheer away from civil ization in his bodily consciousness of things, which he apprehends as directly, with however much added sub tlety, as a peasant of his own Abruzzi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Tuscan Daughter

Author : Lisa Rochon
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443463523
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Tuscan Daughter written by Lisa Rochon and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER In Renaissance Florence, a young artist searching for her missing mother is discovered by arch-rivals Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci In Tuscany during the early 1500s, Beatrice, a peasant girl, finds herself alone in the countryside after her father is killed and her mother disappears into the walled city of Florence. Barefoot and defiant, Beatrice enters the city to sell her family’s olive oil to the artists who toil to create masterworks that will elevate the status of the republic. While selling her wares, Beatrice befriends Michelangelo as he struggles to sculpt David and helps heal a melancholic woman who is having her portrait painted by the brilliant but aging Leonardo. Bonds deepen even while Michelangelo and Leonardo are pitted against each other in a competition organized by Machiavelli. Set during five epic years, Tuscan Daughter reveals the humanity and struggles of a young woman who longs to find the only family she has left while seeking to be an artist in her own right. In her own way, Beatrice influences the artistic masters of the time to find peace with their inner demons as they stake everything on the power of beauty to transform and inspire.

Diamond Cut Diamond, Vol. 2

Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330894163
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (941 download)

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Download or read book Diamond Cut Diamond, Vol. 2 written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Diamond Cut Diamond, Vol. 2: A Story of Tuscan Life and Other Stories Pestilence came, and famine came. And, as we find from the historians, without surprise, all the means which were adopted for the remedy of these evils only seemed to make matters worse. The gathering of. Masses of the people in processions and in the churches to implore the interposition of the Virgin did not stay the pestilence; and the prohibition of all commercial intercourse or trans port of commodities, failed to alleviate the scarcity. But though we may not be astonished at these phenomena, the seventeenth-century Tuscans were so. It was a terrible disgrazia, a tremendous indi cation that the favour of Heaven was withdrawn from the land. And every man saw in the general aﬂiction a castigation due to the sins of his neighbours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Queen Bee of Tuscany

Author : Ben Downing
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429942959
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Queen Bee of Tuscany written by Ben Downing and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quite simply one of the best books of the year." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Ben Downing's Queen Bee of Tuscany brings an extraordinary Victorian back to life. Born into a distinguished intellectual family and raised among luminaries such as Dickens and Thackeray, Janet Ross married at eighteen and went to live in Egypt. There, for the next six years, she wrote for the London Times, hobnobbed with the developer of the Suez Canal, and humiliated pashas in horse races. In 1867 she moved to Florence, Italy where she spent the remaining sixty years of her life writing a series of books and hosting a colorful miscellany of friends and neighbors, from Mark Twain to Bernard Berenson, at Poggio Gherardo, her house in the hills above the city. Eventually she became the acknowledged doyenne of the Anglo-Florentine colony, as it was known. Yet she was also immersed in the rural life of Tuscany: An avid agriculturalist, she closely supervised the farms on her estate and the sharecroppers who worked them, often pitching in on grape and olive harvests. Spirited, erudite, and supremely well-connected, Ross was one of the most dynamic women of her day. Her life offers a fascinating window on fascinating times, from the Risorgimento to the rise of fascism. Encompassing all this rich history, Queen Bee of Tuscany is a panoramic portrait of an age, a family, and our evolving love affair with Tuscany. A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2013

Roadside Songs of Tuscany, Vol. 1

Author : Francesca Alexander
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334106194
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Roadside Songs of Tuscany, Vol. 1 written by Francesca Alexander and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-29 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Roadside Songs of Tuscany, Vol. 1: The Story of Lucia A great many years which I have passed in constant intercourse with the Tuscan contadini. They are but the so to say, of hundreds and hundreds which I have heard and learnt, mostly from old people: many of them have never, so far as I know, been written down before, and others it would be impossible now to find. A great many were taught me by the celebrated improvisatrice, Beatrice Bernardi of Pian degli Ontani, whose portrait I have placed in the beginning of the book, - one of the most wonderful women whom I ever knew. This Beatrice was the daughter of a stonemason at Melo, a little village of not very easy access on the mountain side above Cutigliano. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.