FACSIMILES OF ORIGINAL STUDIES BY MICHAEL ANGELO ETCHED BY JOSEPH FISHER 1872

[FISHER, Joseph; Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)]. Facsimiles of Original Studies by Michael Angelo in the University Galleries, Oxford. London: Bell & Daldy, 1872.

First edition in book form. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Quarto (26cm x 18cm x 3cm). 23 pages + 54 leaves of plates (some folded). English text. Bound in publisher's original cloth covers. Black coated endpapers. Illustrations in the text. Decorative head-piece and capital initial. Printed footnotes. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. The covers a little marked and rubbed to extremities. The interior and plates very well-preserved. A scarce work.

Notes: A beautiful book of etchings after Michaelangelo by Joseph Fisher [1795-1890]. Most of the drawings by Michaelangelo in the Ashmolean, on which they are based, were given in 1845 -1846 by Sir Thomas Lawrence and show human figures and heads, though one shows a horse and there is a facsimile of the artists handwriting and folding plate of the Sistine Chapel. The work was first issued with only 21 plates, but this book-form edition is much expanded.