Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti (The Folio Society)

158, [64] pp. Terra cotta cloth, gilt and black titles and decorations. Frontispiece portrait of Michelangelo in Old Age by Daniele da Volterra, 31 plates follow text reproducing Michelangelo's paintings, sculptures, etc. A biography of Michelangelo taken from Vasari's larger work Lives of the Most Excellent Sculptors, Painters, and Architects, originally published in the 16th century. This edition is translated, with an introduction, by George Bull.