VASARI'S LIVES OF THE PAINTERS, SCULPTORS AND ARCHITECTS (ME...

VASARI'S LIVES OF THE PAINTERS, SCULPTORS AND ARCHITECTS (MEDICI SOCIETY; COMPLETED 10 VOLUME SET; INCLUDES LADY BATHURSTS BOOKPLATE) by Giorgio Vasari and translated by Gaston du De Vere

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LOCATION: JOHANNESBURG

London: MacMillan and Co & The Medici Society, 1912 - 1915

Each 8vo. Hardback bound in vellum. Eloborate gilt tooling and illustration to the front board. Gilt lettering and extensive tooling to the spine. Gilt top edge. Uncut pages. Blue French marbled endpapers. Includes 500 illustrations across 10 volumes. Monochromatic bookplates protected by tissue guard. Loose insert of the publisher's promotional bookmark in volumes I & II and two advertisements included. As well as an invoice from Blackwells dated 1964.

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Each volume contains a bookplate from the library at Cirencester House, with the engraved pictorial bookplate designed by George W. Eve for Lady Bathurst, dated 1898. Referenced in "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Bookplates designed and etched by George W. Eve by George H. Viner, pg 30.