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Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, edited and annotated in the light of recent discoveries by E. H. and E. W. Blashfield and A. A. Hopkins - VOLUMES III AND IV (of four), a MATCHED PAIR from the same numbered set. Charles Scribner\'s Sons, New York, 1896 (MDCCCXCVI); printed by the Trow Directory Printing and Bookbinding Company. LIMITED EDITION: \"This Edition is Limited to Five Hundred Copies,\" and BOTH volumes are numbered in red ink as \"No. 217\" - the two belonged to the same copy of the set. No ISBN - pre-ISBN.Volume III: the lives of Giorgione, Correggio, Bramante, Fra Bartolommeo, Albertinelli, Giuliano and Antonio da San Gallo, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Palma and Lotto, Sebastiano del Piombo, Paolo Veronese (Caliari), Sodoma (Giovannantonio), Tintoretto (Robusti) and Peruzzi, with all 12 photogravure plates present (Leonardo\'s Last Supper, Giorgione, Correggio, Fra Bartolommeo, four Raphaels including the Disputa and the Mass of Bolsena, two del Sarto, Veronese). Volume IV: Antonio da San Gallo, Michelangelo (the longest life in Vasari), Titian and Jacopo Sansovino, with the bibliography, appendix and indexes for the whole set, and all 12 of its photogravure plates present. The set as issued carries 48 plates in all. BOTH volumes retain their original printed erratum slips, intact.Condition: GOOD. Both in publisher\'s quarter cream cloth over taupe boards, spines lettered in red with a gilt rule, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed (deckle), each still in its red cloth dust wrapper (scarce). The wrappers are rubbed, with fraying at the edges and tips, a frayed spine head on Volume III, and small spots and rubbed patches. The cream spine cloth on both is spotted and foxed. The untrimmed deckle edges are ragged, chipped and dust-soiled, as is usual for this format. Bindings sound. Texts clean and unmarked.Ships promptly and boxed via USPS Media Mail. Please see photos - they form part of the description.
