Author: VASARI, Giorgio
Title: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters
Description: Verona, Limited Editions Club, 1966. Hardcover. Two small folio (8-1/2" x 11-1/2") volumes in original brown buckram in grey printed dustwrappers. With 32 color reproductions tipped in and numerous woodcut portraits of the artists, most of which are reproductions of the woodcuts Giorgio Vasari executed for the 1568 edition and with five portraits executed by Fritz Kredel for the present edition. Of a total of 1500 copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, and SIGNED by the printer and designer Giovanni Mardersteig, this copy is not numbered but in place of the number is written in ink "Office Copy." The SIGNED colophon also bears the presentation blindstamp that usually accompanies lettered copies. Monthly Letter laid in. Ill.: Giorgio Vasari and Fritz Kredel. Fine in Near Fine dustwrappers with spotting to the spines in a Fine marbled-paper slipcase .

Keywords: Signed, Limited Editions, Art, Biography, Medieval Giorgio Vasari and Fritz Kredel Signed Illustrated Books Officina Bodoni Fine Press


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