The Book in Italy, During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Shown in Facsimile Reproductions from the Most Famous Printed Volumes by Orcutt, William Dana - 1928

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. Very Good+ condition. Clean, square and tight. NO fading. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp and unmarked. 1928. First Edition. Limited to 750 numbered copies, this being #538. 220pp. Lavishly illustarted with 131 mostly full-page facsimiles including 3 mounted color plates. Explanatory text and commentary by William Dana Orcutt. Introduction by Dr. Guido Biagi, librarian of the Royal Medicean Laurentian Library, Florence. Top edge gilt. Bound in the original pale green boards, with a black cloth spine stamped in bright and shiny gold. The front cover features an orange paper title label printed in black. Oversize Hardcover. 9.75" wide by 12.5" tall. This large heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. . First Edition, Limited 750 numbered. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good+ condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 220pp.… Read More

New York: Harper, 1928. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Introduction by Guido Biagi. 128 plates, 3 in color. Small folio, cloth-backed blue boards with paper cover label. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1928). A near fine copy.<br/> <br/> Limited edition - number 306 of 750 copies for the United States.<br/> <br/>

London: George G. Harrap and Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. #355 of 750cc. 220pp. Publisher's blue boards with cream spine. Pages tanned, ink gift inscription on front free endpaper, light scattered foxing throughout, boards darkened with wear to the extremities, else very good. Original purchase and duty receipt affixed to endpaper in rear.

New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1928.. No. 246 of 750 copies. . publisher's quarter cloth and blue boards, in publisher's two-part box... Fine in a lightly soiled and worn box with short pieces of the side sections missing.. Folio,. Illustrated..

London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1928. Very Good condition in a soiled and chipped dust jacket. This English issue is quite SCARCE in jacket. The jacket is largely intact, but its unprinted rear panel is missing a piece measuring 5" long by 1-1.5" wide. The jacket is protected by a removable clear-plastic sleeve. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. 1928. First Edition, English issue. Limited to 750 numbered copies for England, this being #384. 221pp. Lavishly illustarted with 131 mostly full-page facsimiles including 3 mounted color plates. Explanatory text and commentary by William Dana Orcutt. Introduction by Dr. Guido Biagi, librarian of the Royal Medicean Laurentian Library, Florence. Top edge gilt. Bound in the original blue boards, with an off white (parchment/vellum) spine stamped in bright and shiny gold. Oversize Hardcover. 9.75" wide by 12.75" tall (a little taller than the US issue). This… Read More

London:: George G. Harrap,, [1928].. First edition; No. 719 of 750 copies. . publisher's vellum-backed blue boards.. Bookplate; slight bumping at corners.. Folio,. Illustrated..

London: George Harrap. Very Good. 1928. Hardcover. Limited edition, one of 750 numbered copies 458/750, large quarto, original half vellum/blue boards,220pp, numerous plates and illustrations, ex ref lib, original dustwrapper present but bit rubbed and marked with a darkened spine; Large Quarto .

London: George G. Harrap & Company Ltd, 1928. Collected under the auspices of the Royal Italian Minster of Instruction, together with an Introduction by Dott. Comm. Guido Biagi, late librarian of the Royal Medicean Laurentian Library, Florence. Explanatory text and comment by William Dana Orcutt. Pp. 220+[2](colophon, verso blank), 3 hand-tipped coloured plates, plus 96 black & white plates (some with multiple images, all plates within pagination), text illustrations, bibliography; roy. 4to; qr. vellum, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, blue papered boards, fore-corners bruised; t.e.g., others uncut; dust wrapper, lightly soiled, edges slightly rubbed and split, the front flap fold silverfished, backstrip browned; endpapers slightly marked, a few tiny edge chips; George G. Harrap & Company Ltd., London, 1928. First edition, being one of 750 numbered copies for England (total edition 762). *From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label on upper pastedown, above the earlier bookplate of… Read More