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Large format hardcover, folio size volume bound in black boards boldly lettered in gold, in publisher’s pictorial dust-jacket. 544 pages. Includes: Chronology; Appendices; Bibliography; and Index. Introduction by Xavier F. Salomon. Profusely illustrated throughout with hundreds of color photographs. First edition. “This catalog is published on the occasion of the exhibition Luigi Valadier: Splendor in 18th- Century Rome, on view at the Frick Collection from October 30, 2018, to January 20th, 2019”. An important figure in eighteenth-century Italian decorative arts, Luigi Valadier (1726-1785). He was a talented draftsman, designer, goldsmith, silversmith, and bronze founder, using precious stones as well as enamel, wood and glass, to create whimsical and elegant works of art for noble clients, which included aristocrats and Popes. A pristine,, unmarked and like new copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket. For other than domestic standard orders, please contact us before ordering. A very large and heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible.