TADDEO ZUCCARO / J. A. GERE / 1ST ED / HC w DJ / FINE

Gere, J. A.  TADDEO ZUCCARO: HIS DEVELOPMENT STUDIED IN HIS DRAWINGS.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.  4to (approx 7.5 x 11”).  239, (176) pp. Bound in publisher’s full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine and on black label on spine with gilt borders.  Lavishly illustrated with 176 full-page glossy reproductions of drawings by Taddeo Zuccaro.  Includes Preface; Dates in the Life of Taddeo Zuccaro and of Frederico Zuccaro up to 1566; Bibliography; Introduction; Catalogue of Drawings; and Indexes.  ISBN: 0226288218.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (Published simultaneously in London by Faber & Faber).  Hardcover with dust jacket (now in Mylar).  The volume is in virtually perfect condition, with no ownership marks and only the slightest shelf-wear along the top and bottom edges and at the head and heel of the spine. The protected dust jacket is in perfect condition.  FINE/FINE.

The book shed new light on distinguishing between the works of the two Zuccaro brothers and further interprets the development of Mannerism. This book will be invaluable not only to students of the Renaissance and Mannerism, but also to all connoisseurs, collectors and specialists in drawings.  The 176 plates reproduce 138 drawings, most of them previously unpublished and wrongly attributed, as well as a great part of his surviving oeuvre, also largely unpublished.