[Next Project] The Venetians by M. E. Braddon

[mauka218lani]

Greetings,

Next I'd like to try The Venetians by Braddon from the Wanted Ebooks list. Browsing online versions it looks longer than others I've produced but not technically difficult.

There are a number of scans available. How does one go about selecting a primary source? There are two at Internet Archive and two at Google Books with copyright 1892. For convenience, here are the links to those.

Internet Archive 1

Internet Archive 2

Google Books 1

Google Books 2

Surely cover art will be something depicting Venice. There are already three Venice paintings in the SE artwork database not in use.

Thank you

[Alex Cabal]

OK, you can work on that. For page scans the rule of thumb is to select
the latest possible edition you can find, unless some specific
circumstance suggests otherwise. Send a link to your repo once you start!

On 2/10/26 8:25 PM, 'mauka218lani' via Standard Ebooks wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Next I'd like to try The Venetians by Braddon from the Wanted Ebooks
> list. Browsing online versions it looks longer than others I've produced
> but not technically difficult.
>
> There are a number of scans available. How does one go about selecting a
> primary source? There are two at Internet Archive and two at Google
> Books with copyright 1892. For convenience, here are the links to those.
>

> Internet Archive 1 <https://archive.org/details/venetiansnovel03brad/
> page/n4/mode/1up>
> Internet Archive 2 <https://archive.org/details/venetians00unkngoog/
> page/n5/mode/1up>
> Google Books 1 <https://books.google.com/books?id=-
> o6YJ2yjB34C&pg=PA5&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false>
> Google Books 2 <https://books.google.com/books?
> id=ZrExAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA3&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false>

>
> Surely cover art will be something depicting Venice. There are already
> three Venice paintings in the SE artwork database not in use.
>
> Thank you
>

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[mauka218lani]

Greetings

This scan seems to be best version of the 1893 "Stereotyped Edition" edition and is presented as single volume:

Internet Archive

Repo with initial commit:

Repo

Thank you

[Alex Cabal]

OK, David will manage with Weijia reviewing.

On 2/11/26 5:15 PM, 'mauka218lani' via Standard Ebooks wrote:
> Greetings
>
> This scan seems to be best version of the 1893 "Stereotyped

> Edition" edition and ispresented as single volume:
>
> Internet Archive <https://archive.org/details/venetiansnovel00braduoft/>
>
> Repo with initial commit:
>
> Repo <https://github.com/mauka218lani/m-e-braddon_the-venetians.git>

>
> Thank you
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 10, 2026 at 5:11:28 PM UTC-10 Alex Cabal wrote:
>
> OK, you can work on that. For page scans the rule of thumb is to select
> the latest possible edition you can find, unless some specific
> circumstance suggests otherwise. Send a link to your repo once you
> start!
>
> On 2/10/26 8:25 PM, 'mauka218lani' via Standard Ebooks wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Next I'd like to try The Venetians by Braddon from the Wanted Ebooks
> > list. Browsing online versions it looks longer than others I've
> produced
> > but not technically difficult.
> >
> > There are a number of scans available. How does one go about
> selecting a
> > primary source? There are two at Internet Archive and two at Google
> > Books with copyright 1892. For convenience, here are the links to
> those.
> >
> > Internet Archive 1 <https://archive.org/details/

> venetiansnovel03brad/ <https://archive.org/details/
> venetiansnovel03brad/>

> > page/n4/mode/1up>
> > Internet Archive 2 <https://archive.org/details/

> venetians00unkngoog/ <https://archive.org/details/venetians00unkngoog/>
> > page/n5/mode/1up>
> > Google Books 1 <https://books.google.com/books?id=- <https://
> books.google.com/books?id=->
> >
> o6YJ2yjB34C&pg=PA5&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false>
> > Google Books 2 <https://books.google.com/books <https://
> books.google.com/books>?

> >
> id=ZrExAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA3&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false>
> >
> > Surely cover art will be something depicting Venice. There are
> already
> > three Venice paintings in the SE artwork database not in use.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
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[mauka218lani]

Greetings

This book has grave marker text. I found the prior advice to style as centered small caps. However, the marker is in Italian. Here is scan:

I've added the tombstone class to local css

blockquote.tombstone p{
text-align: center;
text-indent: 0;
font-variant: small-caps;
}

But included language tag in the blockquote anyway, like this:

<blockquote class="tombstone" xml:lang="it">
<p>Sir Smizz<br/>
Morto A Venezia,<br/>
Martedi-Grasso, <time>1885</time>.<br/></p>
</blockquote>

Please advise if this approach could be improved. Thank you

[David]

SE does not use the PG classes (and you have quite a lot of them to get rid of still in this production). So you want:

#chapter-33 blockquote{ ... }

I don't think you need to target the `p`: https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.6/single-page#5.10

It looks like you've applied the language correctly; I assume you've noted the need for the namespace declaration to be added to local.css:
https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.6/single-page#5.3.1.3

You want to remove the last `<br/>` immediately before the `</p>`. And I believe the "A" should be lower-case ("Morto a Venezia.")

Hope that helps!