Description

Hardcover, cloth lettered in red, in publisher’s dust-jacket. Text in French. 42 pages of text, followed by album containing 36 full page black and white photographs by Glasberg, printed on rectos only. First edition. “Garden of Bomarzo, is a Mannerist monumental complex located in Bomarzo, in the province of Viterbo, in northern Lazio, Italy. The garden was created during the 16th century.” André Pieyre de Mandiargues was a French poet who wrote an essay devoted to Bomarzo, one of many artists attracted the garden. Private gift inscription on front end-paper. Else book is clean, tight and unmarked. Dust-jacket is complete, albeit slightly edge-worn and with tear to front panel now clear tape repaired on verso. A scarce title in still serviceable dust-jacket. Very good in a good dust-jacket.