The Illustrated Bartsch, Volume 163
Hardcover
1990 · New York
by Bartsch, Adam von ; Walter L. Strauss ; Richard S. Field
New York: Abaris Books, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good. ex-lib copy. Brown cloth with gilt letters and lines on spine and front cover, 315 pp., 250+ BW illus. Part of a lengthy series of illustrated picture atlases presenting the reproduction of prints rendered by European masters. Once based primarily on the compilations created by Austrian scholar and artist Johann Adam Bernhard Ritter von Bartsch (1757-1821) in his 21-volume "Le Peintre Graveur." This volume is a supplement to the original series. It showcases religious-oriented German woodcuts. Uncommon. (Inventory #: 158050)