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
