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

Book

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American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

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

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.166

Description

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.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1890s, Social life and customs

Dimensions

Height

7-1/4 in

Parts

2015.7.166a Volume I 2015.7.166b Volume II

Book Details

Author

William Dean Howells

Illustrator

Childe Hassam, Ross Turner, F. Hopkinson Smith, Rhoda Holmes Nichols

Edition

First

Publisher

Houghton, Mifflin & Company

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1892

Printer

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

Place Printed

City

Cambridge

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Designer

Sarah Wyman Whitman

Binding Notes

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.)

Relationships

Related Places

Place

City

Venice

Country

Italy

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection