Vasari, Giorgio

3 parts in 3 volumes (parts 1-2 in one volume, part 3 in two volumes), 4to (229 x 154mm.), title within woodcut border, allegorical woodcut on verso of title, woodcut initials and tailpieces, woodcut portraits of the author and the other artists, woodcut printer's device at end of second volume, manuscript portrait of Antonio da Correggio drawn in blank surround (based on the late seventeenth-century portrait by Giovanni Francesco Bugatti after Ambrogio Besozzi), portrait of Girolamo Genga with printed replacement caption, a few manuscript annotations, seventeenth-century Italian vellum, blue edges, first title slightly shaved, a few preliminary leaves loose and creased at edges, quire D browned, second title-page repaired at edges, start of Leonardo da Vinci soiled, occasional light foxing or damp-staining, quire b becoming loose, t4 repaired at foredge, third title torn across, lacking Aaa1, Aaa2 damaged and repaired at head with missing section of image and words replaced in facsimile (see provenance), Aa4 lacking and supplied in manuscript facsimile, last few leaves of volume 3 detached and with a few tears, a few headlines shaved, spine torn on volume 1

Frank Troughton, of Douro Place, Kensington, notes by him and his wife loosely inserted in third volume, detailing the repairs and replacement of missing text

Censimento 16 CNCE 48229; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 515

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Second edition, but the first to provide portraits of the artists.