A Catalogue of Italian Renaissance Woodcuts

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917. Small 8vo. 225 x 145 mm., [8 ¾ x 5 ¾ inches]. x + 67pp. Fifteen reproductions of selected woodcuts. Booklet of 1917 has been handsomely rebound in hunter green cloth with title, publisher, and date reproduced on brown laid paper and affixed to front cover. The bottom half of the original textblock shows mild water staining throughout—which is perhaps what inspired the elegant, protective rebinding.

First Edition of the (now rebound) catalog booklet, published in 1917 in an issue of 1000 copies. A substantial and scholarly art-historical introduction of 28 pages, including bibliography, precedes the (truncated) catalog listing of 121 items, among which are placed the crisp reproductions of 15 woodcut prints. The catalog list covers items ranging from 1471 to 1590; the selected images for reproduction date from 1478 to 1577. . (Inventory #: 1290)