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Book Illustrations from Six Centuries in the
Library of the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute
Product Description
Essay by Susan Roeper
Catalogue by Sarah Scott Gibson, Susan Roeper, and J. Dustin Wees
Published to accompany the first exhibition of the rare book collection of the Library of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, this catalogue highlights forty-two books ranging from the fifteenth-century
Nuremberg Chronicle to a nineteenth-century edition of
Daphnis & Chloé illustrated by French artist Aristide Maillol. The catalogue also includes an essay on Robert Sterling Clark as a collector of rare books as well as descriptions and illustrations of the books included in the exhibition.
116 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 inches
9 color and 35 black-and-white illustrations
1990
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