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Large quarto hardcover, lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s black pictorial dust-jacket. 496 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Lavishly illustrated with 250 reproductions from paintings, chiefly in color. First edition, first printing with full number line. “…the first comprehensive study of the genre to examine it content and subject matter in real detil, from the origins of the alterpiece in the thirteenth century to the time of Caravaggio in the early 1600’s.” No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. A large, heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible.