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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: A New Selection
by Pamela Taylor (ed.)
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
Plume (New American Library), 1971. Soft cover. Good. 253 pages plus 23 pages front matter, preface and introduction; with Index, Suggested Books for Further Reading, Leonardo Material in the U.S., Reconstruction of Leonardo's Inventions. First printing of Plume/NAL edition; work originally published 1960. The selection, begun by former Director of the NY Metropolitcan Museum of Art Francis Henry Taylor and his wife and completed by her after his death, groups excerpts from the notebooks under headings such as "The Painter", "The Sculptor", "The Inventor", "The Musician", etc., ending with biography-related excerpts in a chapter called "The Whole Man - The Man Himself - The Enigma". 16 b&w reproductions. Trade paperback, crease to spine with split opposite at which p. 97-98 partially detached, light soil/foxing to wraps, foxing to top edge, red remainder mark to bottom edge, edges/end papers/page margins age-tanned. Page-reference notes in pencil on rfep.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AEB-436
- Title
- The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: A New Selection
- Author
- Pamela Taylor (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Plume (New American Library)
- Date Published
- 1971
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FRANCIS HENRY TAYLOR, ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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