Francis Marion Crawford - Salve Venetia Gleanings from Venetian History

New York, The MacMillan Company, 1905. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of this two volume set on Venetian history. 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. 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. Good . Ill.: Joseph Pennell. Good .

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