Description

2 volumes. Second Edition, revised by J. G. Links. With a frontispiece portrait of Canaletto reproduced from a 1735 engraving, and with 232 plates of black and white images of paintings, most with up to five or six images per plate. Large, thick 8vo, publisher's original black cloth lettered on the spine in gilt, and in the original dustjackets. x, [6], 186, 232 plates; xiv, 187-723 pp. A fine set, the books pristine and near as mint.

Edizione: an extraordinary catalogue raisonnè an "almost miraculous achievement" - new york times literary supplement.<br> the work catalogues over 1000 paintings by or attributed to canaletto, as well as his drawings and etchings. volume i contains chapters on canaletto's life and works, as well as the plates. the second volume contains the catalogue raisonné. this edition includes over 100 paintings and drawings which appeared after the first.