Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1892. Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies printed on Japan vellum, this being copy no.182. Two octavo volumes (20cm); publisher's vellum boards, with titling, decorations, and triple-ruled border stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; red silk endpapers; top edges gilt; viii,9-279,[3]; [9],10-287,[3]pp; with 18 aquatints after illustrations by Childe Hassam, Ross Turner, Rhoda Holmes Nicholls, and others. Mild wear to extremities, light dust-soil, with a small, stray ink mark to front joint of vol.2, and some scattered foxing to rear cover of same; Very Good+. Handsome edition of Howells's account of his years spent in Venice; he was given a position as consul there, his reward for having written a campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln in 1869. Though published simultaneously with the trade edition bound in cream cloth, the vellum-bound limited edition is considerably less common. BAL 9664.

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Bookseller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 45883
Title: Venetian Life [Limited Edition]
Author: HOWELLS, William Dean
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Limited Edition
Publisher: Riverside Press
Place of Publication: Cambridge
Date Published: 1892

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BAL: Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Vellum: Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...