First edition. Quarto. Publisher’s special edition, bound in vellum and printed on rag paper. Gilt lettering and decoration to the upper cover and spine, with the design after that of a binding in the Bibliotheca Laurentia in Florence.
 
A fine copy, uncommonly clean. Half-title browned. Remnants of original dustwrapper laid in.
 
The second volume produced in Chatto & Windus’s series The Art And Letters Library. Each volume is dedicated to art history of a different region and period.
 
Each volume was available in a range of luxury formats:
Crown 8vo, Coloured Buckram, 7s. 6d.
Small 4to, “Parchment” (but actually white buckram), printed on rag paper, 15s.
Small 4to, Vellum, printed on rag paper, 20s. (As here).
Small 4to, Polished morocco, printed on rag paper, 30s. (to order).