Venice desired / Tony Tanner
1992, First Edition. Oxford, Blackwell. Provenance; bookplate of John Francis Ashby. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #378550
ISBN: 0631155538
Physical description; xvi, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-379) and index. Contents; Lord Byron: a sea cybele. John Ruskin: this sea-dog of towns. Henry James: perpetual architecture, perpetual fluidity, Hugo von Hofmannsthal: because the people there were always masked. Marcel Proust: threefold and unique. Ezra Pound: the white forest of marble. Subject; Literature, Modern 19th century History and criticism. Travel in literature. Venice In literature.
Price: €50.00