First edition, first printing. 474pp. Quarter bound in red cloth over pink paper-covered boards, gilt lettering on the spine. 8vo. Very gently rubbed at corners and spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, a little bumped at spine ends, slightly shelf worn.
Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) was an Lithuanian-American art historian, revered for his work in the attribution of paintings to the old masters. His book, Drawings of the Florentine Painters, was successful all round the English speaking work. He founded and led the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies which was headquartered at his Italian home in Settignano, near Florence.
