Hardcover
1971 · Torino
by Vesme, Alexandre de
Torino: Bottega d'Erasmo, 1971. Reprint of original 1906 Hoepli edition. Hardcover. NF contents but art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks; scuffing to covers; label to spine. Faux wood boards with brown leather spein; gilt lettering (library rebinding). Lovely textured, cream end papers. 542 pp. with no illus. Text in French; Covers Italian engravers from the 16th to 18th centuries; Over 1,300 works--by Etienne Della Bella, Caravaggio, Canaletto, Bernard Bellotto and over 50 others--are described; Includes catalogue raisonne of Della Bella's works.
(Inventory #: 157939)