Toesca, Pietro. Monumenti e studi per la storia della miniatura italiana. La collezione di Ulrico Hoepli.

Milano, editore libraio della Real Casa, 1930.

Folio (290 x 390 mm). (2), 154 pp., final blank. With 6 matted plates in color and gold, 147 heliotype plates, and 79 illustrations in the text. Publisher's original printed boards.

 500.00

Only edition, number 225 of 300 numbered copies. Lavishly produced standard work on Italian illuminated manuscripts from the 13th to the 16th centuries, describing the collection of the famous bookdealer and publisher Ulrico Hoepli (1847-1935).

Binding rubbed, extremeties bumped, hinges cracked; a few edge flaws.