The Doge’s Ring

by Daniele Vare

Methuen & Co., 1949, [First Edition], colour plates, colour frontispiece, hardcover, dustjacket

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, price-clipped front endpaper, age toned pages, price-clipped dustjacket shows considerable wear with small parts missing, foxing, chipping and tears (see photographs)

“Like Marco, the youthful Venetian hero of The Doge’s Ring, its author Daniele Vare was brought up in a Scottish castle.  He has taken some reminiscence of his early boyhood in Scotland and in Venice and has made a fairy-tale out of them, centering round a castle in Spain, that is really a castle in Angus, called Druimbar (the Bar of Dreams), a composite picture of two real places where the author passed part of his early youth.  It was a visit to Scotland at the close of his diplomatic career which stimulated him to write this book.  Thus it is against an entirely authentic background that Marco’s remarkable adventures unfolded.”