Sienese Painting, Enzo Carli, New York Graphic Society, 1st English Ed. 1956, VG, HC

Carli, Enzo. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1956.

English, First Edition thus, VG, HC, Folio 14" X 12", 213 pp.

Very Good Folio, sienna cloth over board, stamped gilt titling to cover and spine. Minor shelf wear to edges and head and tail of spine, else tightly bound, sharp tips, and unmarked throughout. 213 pp.. Replete with 137 illustrations, 62 full-color. Very Good glossy white pictorial dustjacket, black titling to cover and spine, some soiling to top edge of back cover, small closed tears to top edge and bumping to head, else clean, unmarked, and protected by a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. From the dustjacket: "...[P]resents an appropriate survey of one of the most unusual and fascinating events in the whole history of art: the rise and development for more than three centuries of an exceptionally fertile pictorial tradition." A rich picture of the Sienese tradition in 13th-15th century Italian art.