Cover title. Includes 3 Vatican postage stamps affixed to pages. Issued in slipcase, with a skeleton key on a ribbon. Published with pages configured as a double accordion fold closed at both ends, with two interior cross-pages and the first page designed as a set of double doors to be open, allowing the reader to peep through a window, through hedges, over landscape, to see the dome of St. Peter's cathedral; this peep show is intended to emulate the view of the Aventine Hill, through the keyhole of the doorway to the garden of the Priory of the Knights of Malta, in Rome. Library copy lacks skeleton key on red ribbon. IaU Library has copy number 43, signed by Joseph L. Curran. IaU Limited to 300 copies.
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R.C. Bradbury 20th century U.S. miniature books pg 123 no 3
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