The Horses of San Marco by Cunningham, Carol, Dianne Weiss, Susan Acker - 1983

(Mill Valley, CA: Splendid Press, 1983. Cunningham, Carol, Dianne Weiss, Susan Acker. (44) pp. One of 200 copies signed by the proprietors of the Press, Carol Cunningham, Dianne Weiss and Susan Acker. Lavish, hand-colored illustrations throughout of the horses, the symbolic tetramorph of Saint Mark as a lion, and views of the famous Venetian basilica and basin. Several illustrations are highlighted in bronze, which evoke the actual color of the horse statuaries. A stamp of the horses issued by the New York Museum of Art is tipped-in. Near mint in pictorial purple cloth with gold foil endpapers and gold board slipcase with ribbon. (2 1/16 by 2 5/8; 52x67mm).