Description and condition: Decorated boards hardback, dustcover, 4to, 37pp of text, 4 colour plates, 118 b/w plates. Good copy with former owners numerical notation - possibly private library number - on the half-title and title page, browned EPs, else nice clean pages, all the illustrations are in very good condition. In good, now protected, dustcover. Contents: Translated from the original Polish by Witold Ostrowski. Monograph on Bernardo Bellotto (1720-1780), called Canalleto the younger, a court painter for the King of Poland Stanislaus II Augustus Poniatowski. His paintings recorded the features of Warsaw, architecture, street scenes, and Polish society. |
