De Artibus Opuscula XL: Essays in Honor of Erwin Panofsky [2 VOLUMES; TEXT & ILLUSTRATIONS]

Meiss, Millard (ed.). De Artibus Opuscula XL: Essays in Honor of Erwin Panofsky [2 VOLUMES; TEXT & ILLUSTRATIONS]. New York: New York University Press, 1961. First edition. Small Folio. xxi, 539pp., 177 plates. Original black buckram with gilt lettering on cover and spine housed in a red paper-covered board slipcase. Frontispiece photograph. Extensive publication in honor of the Jewish-German art historian who immigrated to the United States after Hitler came to power in Germany. Profusely illustrated with b/w illustrations in volume 2. Panofsky is still influential and certainly best known for his work in iconography and his 1943 publication on Albrecht Dürer. An ex-library set (lacking the publisher’s slipcase) with rubber stamps on title pages and library pockets on rear pastedowns. vg-. Hardcover. (53495) $95