Thomas Okey - Venice and Its Story - 1903

Scarce copy of this wonderfully illustrated book, with colour plates and fold out map

An attractively illustrated volume of Venice, describing Italy's beautiful city of canals. A combination of history and travelogue. The first of these begins with the city's foundation at the Rialto and ends with its masons, painters, glass-workers & printers. The second part is a tourist guide, beginning with the Piazza San Marco & its basilica and ending with the Lido & Chioggia.

Item Description
Handsome and charming illustrated copy, capturing the essence of Venice's unique history, a beautiful book and attractive addition to any collection specialising in travel or Italian history.

The book is beautifully and colourfully illustrated by Nelly Erichsen, W.K. Hinchcliffe and O.F.M. Ward, with 102 illustrations, including tissue-guarded frontispiece, 49 watercolour plates, 11 reproductions of pictures of photographs by Alinari, 20 tinted plates, 31 illustrations in text, sketch map of Italy and Eastern Mediterranean, and fold out map of Venice in the 16th century.

Published by J. M. Dent & Co., London, 1903. The book is bound in Purple leather over marbled boards, with gilt decorations and gilt lettering to spine. Top page edges gilt.

Book Dimensions: 23.5 x 17.5 x 4 cm and Number of Pages: 332 including 2 appendix and index
Weight over 1.4 kg unpackaged

Condition
The book is beautifully bound, designed and illustrated. Firm, and well bound copy. External covers in nice shape, with light wear to corners and spine ends, and with some fading to top covers. Internally the book is in very good condition. A small bookplate on inside front cover page, and inscriptions on first blank front free endpaper page. Pages are clean, with light foxing marks on the margin of few pages. All pages are tightly held at the gutter. Inner hinges are very good. The attractive illustrations make this a truly beautiful book (Lovely Copy) (Please see pictures).