The Treatise on Perspective: Published and Unpublished, National Gallery of Art, 2003, HC, Very Good

Massey, Lyle, ed. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2003.

English, First Edition, Very Good, HC, 4to, 9 ⅜” x 11 ⅜,” 376 pp.

ISBN: 0300097565

Dark gray woven cloth over boards, yellow printed titling to spine, navy endpapers and pastedowns, in publisher’s light gray dust jacket with full-color illustration to front and black-and-whtie illustration to back, black text to front, spine, back, and inside gate flaps. Very minor pen mark to front endpaper, mild soiling at frontis from endpaper transfer, minor bumping to head and tail of spine, very minor edgewear, very mild shelfwear, very mild sunning to edges, otherwise clean, tightly bound, and very good. In a Very Good dust jacket now protected in a Mylar sleeve. Mild bumping to head and tail of spine, mild creasing to front near spine, very minor edgewear, mild shelfwear to Mylar sleeve, otherwise very good. 376 pp. Replete with black-and-white images. Contributions by Christy Anderson, et al. As the 36th book in the Studies in the History of Art series, this book is a collection of symposium papers on perspective compiled by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. From the Preface by Elizabeth Cropper: “The papers in this volume…present the work of many authorities on perspectival construction…Perspective was, as this volume establishes, both an art and a science.”