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VASARI, GIORGIO. Le vite de' piu eccellenti Pittori, Scultori, et Architettori. Florence: Giunta 1568. 3 parts in 3 vols., 4to, 230 x 155 mm. (9 1/8 x 6 1/8 in.), late eighteenth-century English red goatskin, covers with gold-tooled border of repeating oval fan-like tools (vols. 1 and 3) within gold-tooled fillet and leafy vine panels (vol. 2 differently tooled, with leafy lyre-shaped sprays enclosing oval medallion tools), smooth spines identically gilt, brown morocco lettering-pieces gilt, board edges and turn-ins gilt, g.e., silk ribbon markers, modern slipcases, vols. 1 and 3 with joints repaired and a few small repairs to spines, inner hinges of vol. 2 split, all vols. tightly bound, lacking HHHhhh4 blank, title borders cropped, foxed, a few leaves severely so, occasional staining, small wormhole to vol. 2 title, fol. HHHhhh3 torn across and awkwardly repaired, causing acidic staining and loss to several letters of colophon and woodcut border on verso, a few small marginal tears or repairs.
Second edition, first complete and first illustrated edition, variant issue with vol. 1 title containing allegorical woodcut and verso left blank, woodcut architectural title-borders including the Medici arms and (in vols. 2 and 3) a view of Florence, woodcut medallion portrait of Vasari in vol. 1, 144 medallion portraits of the artists (including a repetition of the Vasari portrait), each within one of six different woodcut borders, 8 borders with portrait spaces left blank, woodcut device at ends of vols. 2 and 3, this copy with the stamped last line on K4v, the printed cancel label on Rrr4r, and the two manuscript corrections noted by Mortimer.
The portraits were designed by Vasari and cut by "Maestro Christofano" (fol. Qqq4r), either Cristoforo Coriolano or Cristoforo Chrieger, although other cutters seem to have participated in the work. This second edition, printed 18 years after the first, brings the biographies up to 1567, adding 28 more artists. "It became a model for subsequent writings on the history of art... For its period it has remained the chief authority"--PMM 88; Adams V-296; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 515.
Provenance: J Barnard, eighteenth-century signature on second leaf of each volume -- A few eighteenth-century marginal notes in Italian in vol. 3 (signatures and marginalia cropped) -- "RH", small inkstamp on titles. (3)
Second edition, first complete and first illustrated edition, variant issue with vol. 1 title containing allegorical woodcut and verso left blank, woodcut architectural title-borders including the Medici arms and (in vols. 2 and 3) a view of Florence, woodcut medallion portrait of Vasari in vol. 1, 144 medallion portraits of the artists (including a repetition of the Vasari portrait), each within one of six different woodcut borders, 8 borders with portrait spaces left blank, woodcut device at ends of vols. 2 and 3, this copy with the stamped last line on K4v, the printed cancel label on Rrr4r, and the two manuscript corrections noted by Mortimer.
The portraits were designed by Vasari and cut by "Maestro Christofano" (fol. Qqq4r), either Cristoforo Coriolano or Cristoforo Chrieger, although other cutters seem to have participated in the work. This second edition, printed 18 years after the first, brings the biographies up to 1567, adding 28 more artists. "It became a model for subsequent writings on the history of art... For its period it has remained the chief authority"--PMM 88; Adams V-296; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 515.
Provenance: J Barnard, eighteenth-century signature on second leaf of each volume -- A few eighteenth-century marginal notes in Italian in vol. 3 (signatures and marginalia cropped) -- "RH", small inkstamp on titles. (3)