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Salve Venetia Gleanings from Venetian History
Francis Marion Crawford
1905
The MacMillan Company : New York
8.5" by 6"
v-xi, 517 (4); x (2), 441pp. (3)
SUMMARY
An uncommon first edition of this two volume set on Venetian history.
First Edition,Illustrated,Uncommon
Overall Condition: Good
This book weighs 1.75 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
US Postage: £ 19.99
EU Postage: £ 15.99
European Postage: £ 16.99
Asia Postage: £ 21.99
Worldwide Postage: £ 25.99
DESCRIPTION
A two volume set in the publisher's original cloth bindings.
16 plates including the frontispiece to Volume I. 13 plates including the frontispiece to Volume II. Numerous further illustrations in the text, all by prolific artist Joseph Pennell (1857-1926). Collated complete.
Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his fantastical stories. Late in the 1890s, Crawford began to write his historical works. These are: Ave Roma Immortalis (1898), Rulers of the South (1900) renamed Southern Italy and Sicily and The Rulers of the South in 1905 for the American market, and Gleanings from Venetian History (1905) with the American title Salvae Venetia, reissued in 1909 as Venice; the Place and the People. In these, his intimate knowledge of local Italian history combines with the romanticist's imaginative faculty to excellent effect.
CONDITION
In publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally smart, though a little bumped to the boards and the extremities, with ink stains to the front board of Vol I. Spines are somewhat faded. Hinges to Vol I are splitting but still firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Lacking title page to Vol I.
Overall Condition: Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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