first edition
2002 · New York
by PEDROCCO, Filippo; Susan Scott, trans
New York: Rizzoli International Publishers, 2002. First American Edition. Quarto (29.5cm x 25.5cm). Navy blue cloth boards (hardcover) with titling bling stamped on cover and embossed in silver on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 240pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to corner tips, else clean and crisp. The volume represents the first comprehensive examination of the 18th-century genre of "View Painting" and the artists who defined this period in Venetian art. Hundreds of color reproductions. (Inventory #: 44387)