Venice

This illustrated history of Venice traces the lagoon settlement from its refuge origins through the rise of the Republic, the dogeship, and an oligarchy that sent fleets across the eastern Mediterranean. Bull follows trade, wars with Genoa and the Ottomans, and the city's churches, palaces, and painting, then the long loss of empire after the sixteenth century. Travellers' views and civic ritual sit beside political narrative. The book is a single-volume account of Venetian civilization, not a guidebook to modern streets and not a monograph on one artist.

Bound in green cloth blocked with a gilt design. Glassine dust-jacket, no slipcase. 89 paintings, prints and photographs, 46 in colour. Glassine dust-jacket. The Presentation volume for 1981.