The Doge Club: Or, Italy in MDCCCLIX Cecil B DeMille Bookplate

by James De Mille

$150 · Offered by B Street Books

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870. Hardcover. A comic novel by the Canadian novelist James De Mille, with the distinctive bookplate of Cecil B DeMille not, as far as we know, a relation . John DeMille's novel satirizes the grand tour, and its humorous depiction of Americans abroad was linked by one contemporary reviewer to Twain's 'Innocents Abroad', published the same year.Text in columns with one hundred illustrations promised on the title page. Worn

• Binding: Hardcover

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