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Venetian Life: With Illustrations From Original Water Colors / William Dean Howells

Book
Bound for Beauty #62 2 volume set. Colors plates after original watercolors by Childe Hassam, Ross Turner, F. Hopkinson Smith, and Rhoda Holmes Nichols. First Trade Edition. Contents: Volume 1- Venice in Venice; Arrival and first days in Venice; The winter in Venice; Comincia Far Caldo; Operas and theatres; Venetian dinners and diners; Housekeeping in Venice; The balcony on the Grand Canal; A daybreak ramble; The mouse; Churches and pictures; Some islands of the lagoons; The Armenians; The ghetto and the Jews of Venice. Volume 2- Some memorable places; Commerce; Venetian holidays; Christmas holidays; Love-making and marrying; Baptisms and burials; Venetian traits and characters; Society; Our last year in Venice.
Venetian Life: With Illustrations From Original Water Colors / William Dean Howells picture number 1
Venetian Life: With Illustrations From Original Water Colors / William Dean Howells picture number 2 Whitman's Golden Curl endpapers;

2015.7.166

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

1890sSocial life and customs

7-1/4 in

2015.7.166a Volume I 2015.7.166b Volume II

William Dean Howells

Childe HassamRoss TurnerF. Hopkinson SmithRhoda Holmes Nichols

First

Houghton, Mifflin & Company

Boston

Massachusetts

United States

North America

1892

Riverside Press ; Electrotyped and printed by H.O. Houghton & Co.

Cambridge

Massachusetts

United States

North America

Publisher's Binding

Sarah Wyman Whitman

Bound in a cream vellum-like smooth cloth with stamped gilt title inside wreath to the front cover. Triple-ruled border, stamped in gilt to front and blind to rear. Motif repeated on spine. Top edge gilt. Originally issued in gold cloth dust jackets (lacking). Notable: scarce distinctive endpapers designed by Whitman in repeating gold floral pattern. "Mrs. Whitman based her "golden curl" endpaper design on an endpaper design by Dante Gabriel Rossetti of curls and flowers he created for his 'Poems' of 1870. She used these endpapers choicely on only a few selected books." (Austin Abbey Rare Books, Allusion & Imagery in the Book Art of Sarah Wyman Whitman. Catalogue 2.)

Venice

Italy

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