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1st Ed. Old Venetian Palaces Okey Ill. Haddon 1907
We are offering for sale this First Edition copy of The Old Venetian Palaces And Old Venetian Folk by Thomas Okey, with illustrations for Arthur Trevor Haddon, published in 1907 in London by J. M. Dent & Co. This is a fascinating and comprehensive history of Venice, Venetian architecture, the Venetian Palaces and their owners.
Decorative original cloth binding, untrimmed pages side and base, top page edges gilded. Spine light faded, with very slight bumping to head and tail Some slight foxing on first few pages, otherwise clean. 50 Full Colour illustrations by Arthur Trevor Haddon complete. 2 Reproductions of pictures. 17 black and white illustrations and another 17 black and white within the text. Condition generally good for a book of 115 years old. 9 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches
Thomas Okey (1852–1935) was an expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France. This is a list of his works:
Venice and its Story (1904)[
Paris and its Story (1904)
Dante's Purgatorio (translator).
The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi
The Story of Avignon (1926)
The Little Flowers of St. Francis
Selections From the Vita Nuova
The Old Venetian Places and Old Venetian Folk (1907)
A Basketful of Memories: An Autobiographical Sketch (1930)
ARTHUR TREVOR HADDON 1864-1941, was a portraitist, illustrator, watercolourist and author. He painted in both oils and watercolour and also used pastels. He received a three year scholarship of £50 to the Slade School in 1883, where he studied under Legros. He was awarded a landscape prize and medal for painting in 1885. In 1886-7 he visited Spain and studied in Madrid. He returned to England and worked under Herkomer in Bushey from 1888-1890. He was elected Member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1896. Lived in Rome 1896-7. He visited Venezuela in 1921 and Canada, the USA and Hawaii 1926-1930. He spent the winter of 1928 in San Francisco, where he had a studio at 1990 California Street and his first US Exhibition at the Paul Elder Gallery.
He exhibited 1883-1939, mainly at the Royal Academy, The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and Suffolk Street. One man shows were held in London at the Leicester Galleries (1902), Chenil Galleries (1906) and Dore Galleries (1908). He painted many Spanish and Italian scenes, his Venetian scenes achieving very good prices.
He exhibited 19 works at the Royal Academy, 178 at the Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Oil Painters Institute 11, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour 13, Dudley Gallery 28, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool 11 and various other London and Provincial galleries. His exhibitions up to 1893 are listed in Graves Dictionary.
He was the illustrator of 'The Old Venetian Palaces', 'Southern Spain', and other works. He lived mainly in London, but moved to Cambridge latterly and died there at 67a St. Andrew Street, on the 13th December 1941. According to Probate records his effects totalled £1,187 18s. and 9d.
He was married to Emily Blanche Edith from 1892 (although we can find no record of the marriage) and they had three children, Hubert C born 1893/4, Barbara J born 1895/6., and Geoffrey Maurice Maxwell, born 1897.
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Decorative original cloth binding, untrimmed pages side and base, top page edges gilded. Spine light faded, with very slight bumping to head and tail Some slight foxing on first few pages, otherwise clean. 50 Full Colour illustrations by Arthur Trevor Haddon complete. 2 Reproductions of pictures. 17 black and white illustrations and another 17 black and white within the text. Condition generally good for a book of 115 years old. 9 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches
Thomas Okey (1852–1935) was an expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France. This is a list of his works:
Venice and its Story (1904)[
Paris and its Story (1904)
Dante's Purgatorio (translator).
The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi
The Story of Avignon (1926)
The Little Flowers of St. Francis
Selections From the Vita Nuova
The Old Venetian Places and Old Venetian Folk (1907)
A Basketful of Memories: An Autobiographical Sketch (1930)
ARTHUR TREVOR HADDON 1864-1941, was a portraitist, illustrator, watercolourist and author. He painted in both oils and watercolour and also used pastels. He received a three year scholarship of £50 to the Slade School in 1883, where he studied under Legros. He was awarded a landscape prize and medal for painting in 1885. In 1886-7 he visited Spain and studied in Madrid. He returned to England and worked under Herkomer in Bushey from 1888-1890. He was elected Member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1896. Lived in Rome 1896-7. He visited Venezuela in 1921 and Canada, the USA and Hawaii 1926-1930. He spent the winter of 1928 in San Francisco, where he had a studio at 1990 California Street and his first US Exhibition at the Paul Elder Gallery.
He exhibited 1883-1939, mainly at the Royal Academy, The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and Suffolk Street. One man shows were held in London at the Leicester Galleries (1902), Chenil Galleries (1906) and Dore Galleries (1908). He painted many Spanish and Italian scenes, his Venetian scenes achieving very good prices.
He exhibited 19 works at the Royal Academy, 178 at the Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Oil Painters Institute 11, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour 13, Dudley Gallery 28, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool 11 and various other London and Provincial galleries. His exhibitions up to 1893 are listed in Graves Dictionary.
He was the illustrator of 'The Old Venetian Palaces', 'Southern Spain', and other works. He lived mainly in London, but moved to Cambridge latterly and died there at 67a St. Andrew Street, on the 13th December 1941. According to Probate records his effects totalled £1,187 18s. and 9d.
He was married to Emily Blanche Edith from 1892 (although we can find no record of the marriage) and they had three children, Hubert C born 1893/4, Barbara J born 1895/6., and Geoffrey Maurice Maxwell, born 1897.
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Date 1907
Late Victorian Antiques Material Paper
Origin English
Item code as237a2286
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