Venice Folio Society w/ Slipcase AS NEW

London: The Folio Society, 1993. Third Revised Edition. Hardcover. As new/Slipcased. Royal octavo, [26cm/10.75inches], full pictorial cloth w/ Slipcase, pp. 346, indexed. Illustrated with colour plates, &tc.. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... In an interview with The Guardian, Morris quipped: "Can you remember your first sight of Venice?
No, I really can’t remember it, but I’ve since introduced innumerable people to their first sights of the city, and have greatly enjoyed their almost invariable ecstasies! How did you come to write Venice? The British Army took me to Venice at the end of the second world war, and for two months I had the duty of helping to run all the requisitioned motorboats of the city, before I went on with my regiment to Egypt and Palestine. It was the best present I ever had, a marvellous introduction to the city, and I have been attached to Venice ever since, writing four books about it plus a couple of million articles. Where and how did you live when you wrote it - I believe you were on a year’s sabbatical? I worked for the Manchester Guardian then, and its editor generously allowed me to divide my time between working as a roving correspondent for them, and writing books for myself. Some of Venice I wrote at the village of Samoëns in Haute-Savoie, until summoned by the paper to go and cover the miserable Suez intervention of 1956. Thereafter, as I remember, I just wrote it wherever I could until I had finished it."