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A series of travel sketches that evoke arrival by rail and water and unfold into intimate observations of canals, piazzas, gardens, markets, and caffès. The prose dwells on gondola rides, fishermen and races, hotel and street rhythms, rainy-day moods, and nocturnal light, privileging sensory detail over historical analysis. Anecdotal scenes and character sketches are paired with the author’s drawings to convey the city’s color, sounds, and social habits, offering a leisurely, picturesque portrait of daily life and atmosphere rather than a systematic study of architecture or institutions.

COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY F. HOPKINSON SMITH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

NOTE

THE text of this volume is the same as that of “Venice of To-Day,” recently published by the Henry T. Thomas Company, of New York, as a subscription book, in large quarto and folio form, with over two hundred illustrations by the Author, in color and in black and white.