Venetian life
By: by William Dean Howells ; with illustrations from original water colors
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin
Published: 1892
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Social life and customs
Notes: Limited edition also published this same year.

Binding and endpapers designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman.

Access to portions of this material may be restricted.

Schlesinger's copy imperfect: First preliminary leaf of Volume 1 excised.

Original decorated white cloth stamped in gold; unsigned binding by Sarah Wyman Whitman; top edges gilt; in brown cloth protective wrappers, as issued.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Venice in Venice. Arrival and first days in Venice. The winter in Venice. Comincia Far Caldo. Operas and theatres. Venetian dinners and diners. Housekeeping in Venice. The balcony on the Grand Canal. A daybreak ramble. The mouse. Churches and pictures. Some islands of the lagoons. The Armenians. The ghetto and the Jews of Venice; title: v. 2. Some memorable places. Commerce. Venetian holidays. Christmas holidays. Love-making and marrying, baptisms and burials. Venetian traits and characters. Society. Our last year in Venice.