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Giorgio Vasari;
trans. George Bull.
Lives of the Artists: A Selection. (3-volume set)
Published London: Folio Society, 1993 (uses the 1987 text previously issued by Penguin).
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; coloured tops; published in a single slipcase, without dustjackets.
Printer: Bath Press, Avon.
Size: 180x238x98mm.
Page count: text xxvi,256pp, plates 32pp (Vol. 1); text viii,278pp, plates 36pp (Vol. 2); text viii,310pp, plates 28pp (Vol. 3).
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild scuffs on its slipcase, a little wear starting on its edges and corners; the bindings are starting to sag under the weight of the pages; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £35.00 for 3‑vol set
P&P inc. within the UK, signature required on delivery
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 2508g.

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Contents: Cimabue; Giotto; Duccio di Buoninsegna; Luca della Robbia; Uccello; Ghiberti; Masaccio; Brunelleschi; Donatello; Michelozzi; Piero della Francesca; Fra Angelico; Alberti; Fra Filippo Lippi; Bellinis; Botticelli; Verrocchio; Mantegna; Pintoricchio; Perugino; Leonardo da Vinci; Castelfraco; Correggio; Cosimo; Bartolommeo of San Marco; Raphael; Andrea del Sarto; Giovanni Battista Rosso; Mazzuoli (Parmigianino); Palma & Lotto; Romano; Pontormo; Salviati; Michelangelo; Titian; Sansovino.
Appendices: each volume has notes on the artists by Peter Murray.

Illustrations: 96 pages of plates (17 of these pages are monochrome, the rest in colour)
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: 14pp
Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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