The Stones of Venice: Volume I the Foundations; Volume II the Sea-Stories (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Stones of Venice: Volume I the Foundations; Volume II the Sea-Stories<br><br>IN the course of arranging the following essay I put many things aside in my thoughts to be said in the Preface things which I shall now put aside altogether and pass by for when a book has been advertised a year and a half it seems best to present it with as little preface as possible.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.