
GIOTTO: The Legend of St. Francis, as depicted in the Assisi Frescoes and faithfully copied by Edith M. Cowles
by Chesterton, G. K., foreword
First Edition
Price: $165.00from: Rose's Books, IOBA
- Seller Inventory #: 006592
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Fine
- Jacket condition: Fair
- Illustrator: Giotto
- Edition: First Edition
- Publisher: J. M. Dent
- Place: London and Toronto
- Date published: 1931
London and Toronto: J. M. Dent, 1931. First Edition. Fine brown cloth portfolio, gold titles. Inside 23 pp perfect bound foreword by Chesterton, a note on the frescoes by Edith M. Cowles, and a list of the pictures with descriptive notes on the incidents they illustrate. Loose in the portfolio, in their own section: 28 plates in four colors, printed on heavy stock. Lovely renderings of the frescoes. In illustrated slipcase, worn along edges, and loosening. Fine portfolio, plates and text in fair slipcase. . First Edition. Cloth Portfolio. Fine/Fair. Illus. by Giotto. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.