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DA VINCI, LEONARDO The Drawings and Miscellaneous Papers of Leonardo di Vinci in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle

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Lot 240
DA VINCI, LEONARDO The Drawings and Miscellaneous Papers of Leonardo di Vinci in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Win...
. London: Johnson Reprint Co.; [New York]: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1982-1987. One of 370 sets. Two clamshell cases in half blue morocco. 17 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches (45 x 31 cm); volume I: xxiv, 239, [1] pp; volume II: [xvi], 230 pp., with facsimiles of recto and verso of 161 sheets of drawings. An immaculate set.
This set comprises the corpus of Leonardo's landscape, plant and water studies (first volume) , and horses and other animals (second volume), arranged and with a textual apparatus by Carlo Pedretti, and a foreword by Sir Kenneth Clark. Beautifully printed at the Curwen Press, this facsimile involved unusual and unfettered access to the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.

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