OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]
Friendship.
"The whole party passed into the loggia, and thence into the first great apartment opening out from it where some twenty other people, English and American residents of Rome, had been gathered ... and were taking tea, eating grapes, and looking at picture
Originally published 1878, Friendship is set amidst the society of the Britons and Americans living abroad in Italy, a world she knew well, having moved permanently to Florence with her mother in 1874.
Head and tail of spine chipped, corners rubbed, upper board scratched in places, a few pages with scattered foxing. Still a reasonably bright copy.