[VASARI, GIORGIO]. The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects: Translated From the Italian. With Notes and Illustrations, Chiefly Selected From Various Commentators by Mrs. Jonathan Foster. London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, MDCCCL-MDCCCLII. [1850-1852].
First edition thus. Hardcover. Leather-bound. Complete in five volumes. Octavo (180 x 120 mm.), pp. [viii], 511; [iv], 508; [iv], 526; (4), 548; (4), 580. English text. Bound in contemporary half leather, spines gilt with five raised bands, marbled boards, page edges and endpapers, portrait frontispiece to volume I., footnotes, index in double column to volume V. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, some rubbing to extremities, spines darkened. Contents remarkably clean and without previous ownership markings.
Notes: First thus - detailed accounts of over 160 artists - a classic.
