Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors and architects: . translated from the Italian of Vasari. With notes and illustrations, chiefly selected from various commentators. By Mrs. Jonathan Foster.
Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo 1511 – Florence 1574)
Category
Books
Date
1850 - 1852
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3115087
Summary
Bibliographic description
5v., plate . port.. . 8vo.. Manuscript price: '5 vols 29/0'. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: 'John Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House.' [i.e. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1795-1875)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full red morocco, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 5 raised bands, spine gilt-tooled & lettered on brown labels 'Lives of the painters etc. Vasari'.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.
Makers and roles
Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo 1511 – Florence 1574) Mrs Jonathan Foster