Abstract
Abstract Serious travellers like serious pleasures, and nothing gratifies them more than entertainment disguised as education. Visitors to Rome and Florence in the midnineteenth century justified many an idle hour spent browsing in a bookshop by the purchase of a novel or a volume of poetry with an irreproachably Italian theme. If prepared to linger a little longer, they could enjoy the selection of some suitable illustrations from photographs on display in the same establishment. The prints were then tipped-in by hand at appropriate places in the text, and a binding to suit the client's purse was picked to add the finishing touch. In due course the customer took home his own custom-built copy of a current favourite.1
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