48pp, 88pp black and white plates. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded bottom board edges, rubbed corners, spine heel bumped. Text block edges tanning. Endpapers just starting to fox and tan; pages just starting to tan. Otherwise internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket tanning and foxing, two 4cm closed tears at bottom, has some shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped.
American Bernard Berenson (1865 – 1959) was an art critic and art historian with a particularly keen interest in the Renaissance period.