Carpaccio

New York: Abbeville Press, ND. First Edition. Quarto (33.5cm x 29cm). Red cloth boards (hardcover) with titling blind stamped on the spine; pictorial dustjacket; 271pp; illus. Very Good copy; base of spine bumped; slight shelfware to extremities; slight soiling to textblock. Very Good dustwrapper; small tears to base spine panel; some shelf wear to extremities. Monograph of late 15th / early 16th century Venetian painter Vittore Carpaccio comprising an essay that contexutalizes the artist's art historical importance, forty important paintings in large-format, color reproductions with annotated essays, and a catalogue raisonné of his known works. Translated from the Italian by Jay Hyams.