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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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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0821205013
- ISBN 13
- 9780821205013
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
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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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49946
- 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
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0821205013
- ISBN 13
- 9780821205013
- Publisher
- New York Graphic Society
- Place of Publication
- Greenwich, CT
- Date Published
- 1973
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Art;
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Tight
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