| British Library: | K.T.C.121.b.8 |
| Curwen Press: | M26 |
| British Library: | K.T.C.121.b.8 |
| Curwen Press: | M26 |
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[lines 1 and 2 red] SANDRO BOTTICELLI BY YUKIO YASHIRO PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF ART IN THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF TOKIO VOLUME I THE MEDICI SOCIETY LONDON & BOSTON 1925
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Of this edition of SANDRO BOTTICELLI by YUKIO YASHIRO, have been printed 630 copies of which 600 are for sale Copy number [space for serial number]
[a]8 b8 B-R8 S6; 2 leaves inserted after [a]4.
[12] xi-xvii [xviii] xix-xxix [xxx, 1-2] 3-33 [34] 35-41 [42] 43-68 [69-72] 73-89 [90] 91-101 [102] 103-129 [130] 131-58 [159-62] 163-88 [189-92] 193-214 [215-8] 219-31 [232] 233-250 [251-2] 253-67 [+1].
Imperial 4o: 13¾" × 10", top edge only trimmed and gilt, white laid, no mark, insert in [a] white wove, no mark, and tissue leaf after; 14pt. Caslon, with 4-line dropped initials; insert in [a] bears tipped-on Medici print in colour; casing, glazed white buckram on bevelled boards, black leather labels on spine, gold-blocked [near head]: ‘SANDRO BOTTICELLI YUKIO YASHIRO VOLUME I’, and on a further label at foot: ‘[within a double rule] MEDICI SOCIETY’; printed dust-jacket.
B.L. copy numbered 619; see Simon 1973 p.241: Catalogue raisonné states this edition was on Dutch mould-made paper, and the initial letters by Percy Smith.
See also revised work at Lt.
7/Dec/1925
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 25/Jul/2011
| British Library: | K.T.C.121.b.8 |
| Curwen Press: | M26 |
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As Hx1. but: VOLUME II
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[1]4 [2-23]12 [24]14 [25]8, i.e. [2-23] have 6 pairs of wove leaves, collotypes on rectos, joined into 3 pairs by tissue guards, each recto protected by a tissue leaf; [24] similar but additional wove leaf and tissue tipped in after 2nd wove leaf.
[i-iv] v-vii [viii +572]; plates numbered serially in upper-case roman I-CXLVIII; XLIII & XLIV XCIX & C and CXI CXII CXIII share one leaf each.
Imperial 4o: 13¾" × 10", top edge only trimmed and gilt, paper as Hx1 [1], [2-25], and tissue leaves; 14pt. Caslon; collotype illustrations on rectos of wove leaves in [2-25]; protective tissues bear serial numbers of plates, and caption also in Caslon, except where it is a detail of an previous plate; captions below the plates are in Garamond; casing and labels as for Hx1 but: ‘VOLUME II’; printed dust-jacket.
No separate Limitation notice for vol. II.
7/Dec/1925
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 25/Jul/2011
| British Library: | K.T.C.121.b.8 |
| Curwen Press: | M26 |
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As Hx1. but: VOLUME III
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[1]4 [2-21]12 [22]8, similar to Hx2.
[i-iv] v-viii [+496] plates numbered serially in upper-case roman CXLIX-CCXCI, CLXVII-CLXVIII, CLXIX-CLXX CLXXI-CLXXII, CCXXI-CCXXIII, CCXXIV-CCXXV, CCXL-CCXLI, CCXLII-CCXLIII, CCLXII-CCLXIII, CCLXIV-CCLXV, CCLXVI-CCLVIII, CCLXIX-XX, CCLXXV-VI, CCLXXIX-XXX, CCLXXXII-III, CCLXXXV-VI, CCLXXXVII-VIII, CCXC-XCI each share one leaf of paper.
No separate Limitation notice for vol. III.
7/Dec/1925
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 25/Jul/2011
