Small folio. Original half vellum w/marbled boards. Gilt title to spine. Published between 1923-1925. Complete in 4 volumes. Volume 1, ‘Italienische Bildhauer = Italian sculptors’: 168pp, with 72 collotype plates and 43 illustrations in the text. Volume 2, ‘Italienische Bildhauer = Italian sculptors’: 128pp, with 60 collotype plates, 37 illustrations and 1 signature in the text. Volume 3, ‘Niederlandische und franzosische Bildhauer = Netherlandish & French sculptors’: 146pp, with 78 collotype plates, 32 illustrations and 2 signatures in text. Volume 4, ‘Deutsche Bildhauer = German sculptors’: 170pp, with 85 collotype plates, 50 illustrations and 6 signatures in text. Text in German and English. Marbled boards of each volume a little faded and edge worn. Closed 5cm tear to volume 3’s title page. There is a small, perhaps half a cm, pen mark on the bottom edge of each volume. Ex library. Internally: each volume has a library bookplate to front end paper; discrete library stamps throughout, mainly to verso of illustrations, (i. e. not on the illustrated side). Illustrations themselves are all free of stamps. Pages and illustrations in very good, clean condition throughout. Spine’s vellum is in good condition. Spine’s gilt still extraordinarily bright. Generally a very good, clean and solid set, without the usual wear one might associate with an ex-library set. Four, heavy volumes; price of postage will likely have to be adjusted accordingly.
