Corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle. Volume 2: text: PB 90-2003

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Titles

Corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle. Volume 2: text

Maker(s)

Publisher: Johnson Reprint Company Limited
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Editor: Pedretti, Carlo
Editor: Keele, Kenneth D.
Printer: Curwen Press
Binder (person): Zaehnsdorf

Description

Leonardo da Vinci ; [edited] by Kenneth D. Keele and Carlo Pedretti.

Spine title: Anatomical studies by Leonardo da Vinci : The Queen's Collection at Windsor Castle.

473-1025p : ill. ; 48 cm.

Place(s) associated

London ⪼ England
New York ⪼ USA

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1980

Note

"This English edition, comprising two volumes of text and a Solander box of facsimile drawings, is limited to 998 sets, of which 970 are for sale. This copy is number 9 ..." Museum has only second volume of text. "Designed and printed at the Curwen Press, London on fifty per cent rag fourdrinier made parchment 155 GSM made by the Inveresk Paper Company in Wells, Somerset, supplied by John D. Henderson & Company, bound by Zaehnsdorf of London."--t.p. verso. Fully bound in Nigerian goatskin dyed the royal blue; spine lettered and stamped in gilt; gilt page edges.