Author: Oliphant, Margaret [ Mrs Oliphant ]
Title: The Makers Of Venice. Doges, Conquerors, Painters And Men Of Letters
Description: Macmillan & Co, 1892, extra illustrated edition. Two colour cloth, G+. xvi+410pp, b/w frontis, 56 b/w plates, 21 text illustrations, index, top edge gilt a strip of cloth missing from the rear board approx 4mm wide, cream buckram to the spine grubby & yellowed, sporadic foxing, a solid copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ A nicely illustrated account of the men who made Venice a centre of the Renaissance, much reprinted. This edition, in addition to the 26 plates taken from pen & ink drawings of Venice contains 30 photographic views of the city.

Keywords: italy, art, renaissance, history, renaissance art, biography, travel, venice