Author: Essling, Victor Massena: Charles Gerard Title: Etudes Sur L'Art de la Gravure Sur Bois a Venise. Les Livres a Figures Venitiens de la Fin Du Xve Siecle Et Du Commencement Du Xvie: Premiere Partie, Tome I, Tome II and Tome II (2); Seconde Partie, Tome I and Tome II; Troisieme Partie, Tome I and Tome II
Description: Florence/ Paris, Leo S. Olschki/ Henri Leclerc, 1909. 137/300. Hardcover. Six oversized volumes bound in 3/4 brown leather and marble paper over boards, tope edge gilt, marble illustrated end papers; 5 raised bands on spines with gilt lettering. Various paginations throughout the volumes. Each volume is profusely illustrated throughout in bw. Printed in edition of 300 numbered copies, this being number 137. Text is in French. Contents include: 1. ptie. t. 1. Ouvrages imprimés de 1450 à 1490 et leurs éditions successives jusqu'à 1525. t. 2. Ouvrages imprimés de 1491 à 1500 et leurs éditions successives jusqu'à 1525. -- 2. ptie. Ouvrages imprimés de 1501 à 1525. -- 3. ptie. Les origines et le dévelopmane de la xylographie à Venise. Revision des principaux ouvrages illustrés. Appendice. Tables. VG- (shelfwear to boards, scuffing to leather, pages are lightly age toned but otherwise very clean and clear, bookplate of previous owner, Albert M. Todd, "The Peppermint King of Kalamazoo", inside front covers) .
Keywords: General European Art ; Italian Printing : Wood Engraving ; ; General Art - European
Price: US$ 4500.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 189250
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