Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection

A like new hardback copy. Book appears unopened and unread, with no discernible faults, in a fine unclipped dustjacket. Still tightly bound and interior in nice clean condition, no names nor inscriptions, looks unused.The exhibition catalogue for a collection put together by the Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in the US. Frontispiece and 70 colour plates + numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text, 192pp., Quarto 11"x 8" orig blue boards, no ownership marks. The author's twenty-page introduction to the catalogue is a serious and thoughtful contribution to the history of this fascinating, and too little known, branch of Italian art. She also provides, for each of the seventy exhibits, a detailed individual description and commentary with provenances and bibliographical notes, often accompanied by one or more black and white illustrations as well as the full colour plate. The main entries are followed by a checklist of the remaining fifty works in the collection, each with a condensed descriptive note and a small black and white print for identification, this definitive volume is completed by a full bibliography at the end of the book. We pack our books properly and ship daily from the UK, using recycled materials where we can.…