Venetian Life

Howells, William Dean

Published by Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892

About this Item

Two volumes (complete), 8vo., white cloth lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers; top edges gilt; fabric dust jackets, with a touch of shelfwear. Illustrated edition, with 7 plates illustrated by Childe Hassam, Ross Turner, F. Hopkinson Smith, and Rhoda Holmes Nicholls ---- From the library of Milton C. Rose, with the patron of the arts and prominent attorney's bookplate on the front pastedown. Rose (1904-2002), a onetime law partner of Richard Nixon and John N. Mitchell in the firm Nixon Mudge Rose Alexander & Mitchell, was instrumental in bringing Nixon into the firm in 1963 after he had lost the election for governor of California. Rose s collection of art was donated to the Cleveland Art Institute and to the Williams College Art Museum, which has a room bearing his name. A striking work with a distinguished provenance. Seller Inventory # ABE-9316267549

Bibliographic Details

Title: Venetian Life

Publisher: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

Publication Date: 1892

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Edition: Illustrated Edition