Paul Hills, Venetian Colour: Marble, Mosaic, Painting and Glass 1250-1550, 1999, HC, Near Fine

Hills, Paul. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

English, First Edition, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 10 ¼” x 11 ¾,” 247 pp.

ISBN: 0300081359

Black woven cloth over boards, gilt stamped titling to spine, sage endpapers and pastedowns, in publisher’s black dust jacket with full-color images to front and back, white text to front, spine, back, and inside gate flaps. Very minor edgewear, minor bumping to head and tail of spine, minor soiling from image transfer at title page, otherwise clean, tightly bound, and excellent. In a Very Good dust jacket now protected in a Mylar sleeve. Mild shelfwear to front, spine, and back, mild scratching to front and back, minor pressure indentations to back, mild edgewear, minor bumping to head and tail of spine, otherwise very good. 247 pp. Replete with full-color and black-and-white images. Paul Hills, a former Senior Lecturer at Warwick University and Italian Renaissance specialist, has created a comprehensive text on the rich colors of Venice. Architecture, marbles, mosaics, glass, dress, and paintings are all discussed to demonstrate the significance of color. Hills explores “for the first time Venetian colour in relation to social, cultural and environmental forces…He argues that Venetian colour–in buildings, table glass and dress as well as paintings–was the product of a lagoon site and a mercantile culture.”