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Hardcover. Etat : Good>Very Good. No Jacket. illustrated by Reginald Barratt. (illustrateur). 1st US Ed. Vintage travel book describing Venice c.1900 with 29 full colour plates based on charmimg watercolours by Reginald Barrett. 336p. Text block clean and neat but loose in original covers which are slighty worn at head & foot of spine. Donor inscription dated 1912 on ffep. Book.
Edité par Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1907
Vendeur : Ann Becker, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Hardbound. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Barratt, Reginald (illustrateur). First Edition. No DJ Spine Has Slight Fading on Edges, Embossed Boards With Gold Trim.
Edité par Chatto and Windus., London, 1907
Vendeur : Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, Royaume-Uni
8vo. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. viii + 185 pp. Title page in blue and black. Bound in original turquoise cloth, gilt, with embossed gilt roundel on front board. Top edge gilt, others rough cut. A little wear to head and tail of spine and light sunning of front board edges. Some spotting of front and lower edges and foxing of preliminaries, including title page and occasional margins; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 30 watercolours, including frontispiece protected by tissue guard, by Reginald Barratt. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Historical and topographical account of Venice and its monuments. Dancer, dance writer and translator, Beryl de Selincourt (1879-1962, other sources give a birth date of 1884) was born as Beryl Drusilla de Zoete, in London of Dutch descent. Mary Gertrude Sturge Gretton (1871-1970) was born May Gertrude Sturge later became Mary Gertrude Henderson was a historian and later J.P. The illustrations are by watercolour artist, Reginald Barratt (1861-1917). The new Colour-Books series of Chatto and Windus was clearly a competitor of the popular A. and C. Black publications in this format TOPOGRAPHY VENICE HISTORY TOPOGRAPHY ITALY 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED TOPOGRAPHY.