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Chiaroscuro: The Clair-Obscur Woodcuts by the German and Netherlandish Masters of the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries -- A Complete Catalogue with Commentary

Chiaroscuro: The Clair-Obscur Woodcuts by the German and Netherlandish Masters of the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries -- A Complete Catalogue with Commentary

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Chiaroscuro: The Clair-Obscur Woodcuts by the German and Netherlandish Masters of the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries -- A Complete Catalogue with Commentary

by STRAUSS, Walter L

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Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973. Hardcover. 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and front board black pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. xx, 393pp. Extensive illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faint smear to front flyleaf; mildest of faint jacket wear only. A tight, attractive first edition of (to cite front jacket flap) "the first comprehensive pictorial reference and catalogue raisonne of all the surviving chiaroscuro woodcuts of the German and Netherlandish masters" -- indispensable for research.

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Title
Chiaroscuro: The Clair-Obscur Woodcuts by the German and Netherlandish Masters of the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries -- A Complete Catalogue with Commentary
Author
STRAUSS, Walter L
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used
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ISBN 10
0821205013
ISBN 13
9780821205013
Publisher
New York Graphic Society
Place of Publication
Greenwich, CT
Date Published
1973
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