Author Name: Brinton, Selwyn; Holme, Geoffrey (Ed)
Title: Venice Past and Present
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: UK The Studio Ltd 1925
ISBN Number: B000860GK0
Seller ID: 16807
184 pages; Very Good/No Jacket. Light and dark blue boards with bright gilt lettering on leather spine. Gilded top page edges. A bit of shelf wear at corner tips and a tiny bit at edges. Blue and white marble-decorated endpapers. Tee-niny handwritten name to inside front board. Pages are very, very lightly age tanned. Boards are straight, spine is square and pages are clean. Four page list of illustrations. Engraving and printing by Herbert Reiach, Ltd. This is mostly a book about Venice as an inspiration to Art and Literature. Chapter 1 begins: Out of the waves came Venice - a thing seaborn, like the Cyprian goddess of old legend. Venice, among Italian towns, stands alone. She only is built not by the sea, but in the sea; born, not on the beach of ocean, but like Aphrodite, from beneath her heart. (The Sea-charm of Venice by Stopford A. Brooke. Fantastic pictures.
Art History:: Collections: Museums
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