Nov 20, 2003 - Sale 1986

Sale 1986 - Lot 311

Price Realized: $ 805
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
VASARI SOCIETY, (THE), for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters. First Series, 10 parts * Second Series, 16 parts in 15. Together, 25 volumes. Over 1000 collotype plates. Folio, with Part 2 text in smaller format folio; contents loose in original publisher's board portfolios with cover title labels and ties. 2 printed indexes laid into first parts of each Series, and a separate typewritten cumulative index to artists' names is bound separately. Ex-library, with stamps to preliminaries or versos only. not collated. Oxford: University Press, 1905-35

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"The Society . . . has published a corpus of reproductions which will be of permanent value, from the aesthetic as well as from the historical point of view"--(from note to part 16, Second series).