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Goldscheider, Ludwig Leonardo da Vinci. The Artist (1945)"ALL IN ONE BOOK" From the foreword: "The
"ALL IN ONE BOOK"
From the foreword:
- "The present work is not a book on Leonardo. It is, rather, a book by him."
- "It contains large-scale reproductions of all his paintings, together with some which are reasonably ascribed to him. It also reproduces some sculptures, thought to be his. But the best part of the book concerns Leonardo's drawings, most of which are given in their original size."
- " . . . there is [also] his biography by Vasari, who was a boy of eight when Leonardo died. There [are also] . . . documents - letters by Leonardo and information by his contemporaries . . . [etc, etc]."
Beige buckram boards, brown lettered to the upper panel and spine, plain endpapers, tipped-in colour frontispiece + 44 pp of text +153 pp of monochrome, duotone and colour lithographic plates (including several full-page tipped-in colour plates) + index of collections, 123-title bibliography and index - all on heavy matt art-paper.
CONDITION. The boards are lightly stained and rubbed. An 85 mm crack at the foot of the front paste-down has loosened the binding slightly. There is an ownership name on the front free endpaper and a bookseller ticket on the front paste-down. The endpapers are otherwise unmarked and unfoxed. The contents, including all tipped-in plates, are complete, unmarked and unfoxed and unsunned.
Despite its 73-year age, this large-folio volume remains one of the most complete and authoritative books on the Florentine master. This is a very good copy.
Phaedon Press
Oxford and London
1945
Very Good
355 x 270; 2 kg
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"ALL IN ONE BOOK"
From the foreword:
- "The present work is not a book on Leonardo. It is, rather, a book by him."
- "It contains large-scale reproductions of all his paintings, together with some which are reasonably ascribed to him. It also reproduces some sculptures, thought to be his. But the best part of the book concerns Leonardo's drawings, most of which are given in their original size."
- " . . . there is [also] his biography by Vasari, who was a boy of eight when Leonardo died. There [are also] . . . documents - letters by Leonardo and information by his contemporaries . . . [etc, etc]."
Beige buckram boards, brown lettered to the upper panel and spine, plain endpapers, tipped-in colour frontispiece + 44 pp of text +153 pp of monochrome, duotone and colour lithographic plates (including several full-page tipped-in colour plates) + index of collections, 123-title bibliography and index - all on heavy matt art-paper.
CONDITION. The boards are lightly stained and rubbed. An 85 mm crack at the foot of the front paste-down has loosened the binding slightly. There is an ownership name on the front free endpaper and a bookseller ticket on the front paste-down. The endpapers are otherwise unmarked and unfoxed. The contents, including all tipped-in plates, are complete, unmarked and unfoxed and unsunned.
Despite its 73-year age, this large-folio volume remains one of the most complete and authoritative books on the Florentine master. This is a very good copy.
Phaedon Press
Oxford and London
1945
Very Good
355 x 270; 2 kg
For further details and and to bid visit AntiquarianAuctions.com
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