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Artist: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn Authors: Christopher White & Karel G.Boon Publisher: Van Gendt & Co Date: 1969 Condition: The two volume hardback, first edition, with the original unclipped printed dust wrappers over gilt-embossed black boards. Light shelf-wear to the wrappers, a couple of chips and nicks to the wrapper of Vol.II. Internally, both volumes are in excellent condition, a bookseller's annotation in pencil to the first floating endpaper of Vol.I. Illustrated in black and white throughout Vol.II.
The standard reference text for Rembrandt's etched works, this catalogue raisonne offered revised analysis of the corpus of work, and also included full concordance with the work of earlier scholars.
A key text for collectors, scholars and professionals in the world of this most influential printmaker.
