Venice by Daniel Pidgeon
Published 1895: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated frontispiece
Original green embossed cloth with gilt titles. 152 clean and bright pages, previous owners signature dated November 1902 on the first page, decorated endpapers. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time consistent with age and bumped on the corners. A scarce original first edition.
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Excerpt from Venice
Impressions of Venice may be com pared to a brilliant heap of her own many-coloured beads, which a child may play with, count, or string, according to mood or temperament.
The first course bespeaks a traveller wise enough to loaf contentedly, morn ing, noon, and night, on Lagoon or Canal, simply absorbing and enjoying Venice.
The second, one who, having posted all the items of Baedeker's day-book into his mental ledger, closes his account against the City in the Sea with a big balance of facts and figures on the profit side.
The third, him who, with the kindly aid of Sismondi and Brown, Vasari and Burckhardt, strings some of his brighter beads of memory upon a few homespun threads, to form reminders of unique joys, tasted in faery lands forlorn.
Such toys can please others only upon condition that they do not burden the loafer; distract the precisian; or try to teach the unclassed tourist what he ought to think and feel about Venice
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