Author: GOLDSCHEIDER, LUDWIG
Title: Michelangelo: Paintings - Sculptures - Architecture, Complete Edition
Description: London: Phaidon Publishers, Inc, 1953. Hardcover. A possible first American edition, 1953. All of the master's works (apart from the drawings) are illustrated here in this hefty volume. With 400 b&w and color illustrations (some fold-out) of the paintings, sculptures and buildings designed by Michelangelo. Color images tipped onto leaves. --- In woven brown and off-white cloth with Michelangelo's stone mason's mark to cover in brown, spine titling also in brown. Published by Phaidon Publishers of London and distributed by Garden City Books of New York. Jacket with close-up of the Pietà. --- A well preserved copy: tightly-bound and unmarked, though with mild age-toning to leaves. Fair-only jacket with a large open front panel tear, other small chips and small tears but mostly intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested for any shipment other than by USPS Media Mail in the US.); Quarto - 11 to 13 in. tall; (2), 228 pages. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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