Hardcover
1927 · Firenze and Paris
by Borenius, Tancred and E.W. Tristram
Firenze and Paris: Pantheon, Casa Editrice; the Pegasus Press, 1927. Hardcover. G. Ex-library with usual marks. Covers show shelf wear, soiling, tanning, fraying of cloth. Bottom page edging shows shelf wear, blackening. Very minor light foxing, some soiling on some pages. Otherwise pages are age-toned but clean. Binding on front cover is a little loose, otherwise binding is tight.. Red cloth boards; black title plate with gilt lettering on spine, with gilt designs. Top page gilt. 66 pp text with 11 BW figures + 101 BW plates. An extensive source about painting among the medieval centuries, with chapters divided into the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th/16th centuries, with a chapter on the technique of English medieval painting. Many nice plates covered with a thin see-through page with its title and description.
(Inventory #: 164090)