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001 $ 08/2681
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20220824164706.7
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Stokes, Adrian
245 1 0 $a Venice / $c by Adrian Stokes ; illustrations by John Piper
260 # # $a London $b Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 3 Henrietta Street, W.C.2. $c 1965
300 # # $a 67 pages : $b colour illustrations ; $c 25 cm.
500 # # $a `Limited edition, designed by Christine Malone and Roy Giles, first published March 1965 by the Lion & Unicorn Press at the Royal College of Art. This edition first published [by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd], October 1965.’[Title page verso].
500 # # $a `Few writers have so full a knowledge of Venice, her history and architecture, her daily life, as Adrian Stokes, who lived there for many years. Here his haunting and evocative text supports John Piper’s spirited lithographs in a joint work which will give the deepest satisfaction to all who love Venice, the mother of cities, and are not afraid to see her with contemporary eyes’. [dust-jacket].
563 # # $a Dust-jacket with illustrations by John Piper. Dark blue cloth with embossed front cover and lettered in gilt on spine: `Venice. Adrian Stokes and John Piper.'
653 # # $a Illustrated books
700 1 # $a Piper, John $e illustrator $e lithographer
710 2 # $a Duckworth and Company $e publisher