Book Description

Forbes`s Directory and Bulletin Commentarium Rerum Urbanum [also named The Roman News and Directory... Forbes`s Directory and Bulletin Commentarium Rerum Urbanum [also named The Roman News and Directory... Folio numbers bound up in two volumes. Volume 1: Rome December 1st 1887 - 1892; Volume 2: 1892 - 1898, published fortnightly. four pages an issue. Contemporary cloth, a little rubbed but sound. Internally in good condition, though occasionally browned where previously folded.
Dealer Notes
Seasons 15 - 25 (eleven years in all) of this fascinating local newspaper, printed and produced in English for the benefit of the English community in Rome and travellers to Italy in the late nineteenth century. Contains news on a great range of subjects, including lists of visitors to Rome, archaeological finds, advertisements, news of the Vatican and so on. Extremely rare, we have located copies in the BL only. Gives a marvellous impression of the interests, amusements and lives of the English travellers at that time. Edited and marketed by Russell Forbes, he takes the opportunity to advertise his extensive publications and lectures on Rome within it, changing the name to Forbes' Rome Directory and Bulletin for 1888 (i.e. from the opening of the season on December 1st 1888) and then to the Rome Directory and then to the Rome Directory and Bulletin for 1889 season, and then to the Roman News and Directory for the 1890 season.
Author Russell Forbes
Date 1887
Binding Cloth
Publisher Forbes
Illustrator None
Condition Good

Price: £300.00

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