Lives of the Most Eminent Painters. Illustrated with the Work of the Masters. 2 Vols. [SIGNED BY PRINTER]

Vasari, Giorgio; Marilyn Aronberg Lavin (editor); . Lives of the Most Eminent Painters. Illustrated with the Work of the Masters. 2 Vols. [SIGNED BY PRINTER]. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1966. First edition thus. Large quarto. xviii,344; (6),386,(2)pp. Gray dust jackets (spines browned & water spotted). Gilt decorated brown buckram with black spine labels. Housed in publisher’s heavy cardboard slipcase covered in marbled paper with plain paper spine label. Illustrated with 32 tipped-in color plates and numerous woodcut portraits of the artists (most reproduced from Vasari’s 1568 edition). Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies (this is #1363), designed and printed by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega and signed by him on the limitation leaf. A fine set in very good- dust jackets and a near fine, but slightly shelfworn slipcase. very good + to near fine. Hardcover. (50440) $95