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Author: Finiguerra, Maso
Title: A Florentine picture-chronicle, being a series of ninety-nine drawings representing scenes and personages of ancient history sacred and profane. Reproduced from the originals in the British Museum by the Imperial Press, Berlin with many minor illustrations drawn from contemporary sources and a critical and descriptive text by Sidney Colvin.
Publication: London, Bernard Quaritch 1898.
Price: £320
Reference: 08196
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Large folio. (2)+vi+(2)+42+(206)pp, 99 plates, some double-page (with 2 plate numbers), errata slip bound in. Publisher’s printed cloth, worn at places, rebacked using original spine. Title lightly spotted, otherwise internally clean and fresh. Recent bookplates. One of a limited edition of 300 copies only.
The first modern facsimile edition of this fifteenth century ‘picture-chronicle’ of nearly one hundred drawings attributed to the goldsmith and possible inventor of the art of engraving, Maso Finiguerra (1426-1464), portraying sacred and profane subjects from biblical stories and Greek and Roman legends. Colvin provides an introduction and a commentary on each of the drawings.