THE GREAT CENTURIES OF PAINTING: THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: FROM VAN EYCK TO BOTTICELLI
by Lassaigne, Jacques and Giulio Carlo Argan
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine with no dust jacket
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: Skira. Fine with no dust jacket. 1955. First US Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Hardcover without dust jacket (as issued). Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover. Small Folio. 235, (1) pp. Illustrated with 116 high-quality, tipped-in, color plates. Both the text and the color plates were printed by the Skira Color Studio in Switzerland. The volume is in excellent, unmarked condition, aside from a small bookseller's label on the fep, else Fine+. FINE. This is a volume in the series The Great Centuries of Painting, conceived, planned and directed by Albert Skira. Magnificent plates.. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall .
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- Round Table Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4813
- Title
- THE GREAT CENTURIES OF PAINTING: THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: FROM VAN EYCK TO BOTTICELLI
- Author
- Lassaigne, Jacques and Giulio Carlo Argan
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First US Edition. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Skira
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Art;, Art History, Painting, Xvth Century, Renaissance
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