Georges GRATET-DUPLESSIS
Mémoire sur vingt-quatre estampes italiennes du XVe siècle, désignées sous le nom d'estampes de la collection Otto[Memoir on Twenty-Four Fifteenth-Century Italian Prints, Known as the Otto Collection Prints]
s. n.|Paris 1876|14.2 x 22.5 cm|Broché
First edition, printed in a small number of copies on laid paper, of this offprint from the Mémoires de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France, volume XXXVI.
Illustrated at the beginning with a folding plate.
A tear at the head of the spine, which also has a small loss at the foot.
A study of a series of 24 engravings from the early Florentine school, one of which had just been acquired by the Bibliothèque nationale.
Georges Gratet-Duplessis (1834-1899), a historian of printmaking, was director of the Bibliothèque nationale's Cabinet des estampes from 1885 until his death.
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