Les Eaux-Fortes de Canaletto.

Edizioni Daria Guarnati, Venice, 1945

A very attractive edition and appreciation of Canaletto’s work. Facsimile etchings. Limited edition of 1000 copies, this being no. 789 of the French edition.

Description: Publisher’s cloth-backed light-brown boards, with pictorial decoration blocked in black to front board. Oblong elephant folio: 42 × 57 cm; pp. 43, 18 pls., [2]. With 1 vignette on title page, 31 in-text illustrations and 30 plates.

Condition: Binding shows slight signs of wear, front board with small colour stains. Pages slightly toned with age; a closed tear to plate 18 (c. 4 cm). Despite the described blemishes, still a very nice copy.