Waters Rising Letters from Florence Peter Waters and Book Conservation at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Di Firenze After the 1966 Flood by Waters, Sheila - 2016

E-285: The Legacy Press. Very Good. 2016. Hardcover. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Published by Legacy Press, Ann Arbor, MI. 2016. 482 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In Waters rising: letters from Florence, renowned calligrapher Sheila Waters recounts the story of the role that her husband Peter Waters (1930-2003) played as the person in charge of organizing the monumental efforts to save severely damaged books in the Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze (National Library, Florence) after the devastating flood in 1966 fifty years ago. To give the most complete picture of the events that occurred initially in the recovery mission, Sheila presents nearly 50 of Peter's letters written between the end of… Read More

Hardcover. Good. UK stocked, available immediately. Hardcover, published by Legacy Press in 2016. First edition. No DVD. A very good copy in a very good unclipped dustjacket. Small mark on page 150, very minor edge rubbing. Illustrated.