PRESENTATION COPY

BERENSON, Bernard. The florentine painters of the renaissance: with an index of their works.

New York. G. P. Putnams' Sons, 1896. First edition.

8vo. [2], 141pp, [3]. With a frontispiece. Original publisher's brick red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. Booksellers ticket of Galloway & Porter of Cambridge and bookplate of Bernhard and Mary Berenson to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To / Capt Wakey Chandos-Pole / with the best / remembrances of / Bernard Berenson / I Tatti / Febr. 3 / 1945'.

American art historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) own copy of the first edition of the third volume in his series of monographs on Italian Renaissance painters.

£ 250.00 Antiquates Ref: 27198