Author: Max Beerbohm
Title: A Stranger in Venice: An Essay
Description: London, The Winged Lion, 1993. Hardback. A smart limited edition copy of this essay from English writer and humorist Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm. Limited to seven hundred and fifty copies for sale, of which this is number seven hundred and forty-eight. With a frontispiece. A charming essay based on the author's travels to Italy in the Autumn of 1906. He describes his experiences in a series of articles that were published in the Daily Mail in November and December of the same year. Of ten articles, six of those on Venice were "welded together" with a few additions to create this work, originally published in A Variety of Things in 1928. Written by Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm, an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max who first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. In the original paper covered boards. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .

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