Italian Frescoes: The Baroque Era, 1600-1800, Steffi Roettgen, VG HC

Roettgen, Steffi. New York. Abbeville Press. 2007. English, First Edition, Very Good, HC, Quarto, 12" x 10 1/2", 484 pp.  ISBN: 9780789209368 Very Good quarto, grey cloth over board, silver gilt lettering to spine, illustrated endpapers featuring Andrea Pozzo’s fresco Saint Ignatius in Glory. Drop damage to top cover and text block, otherwise tightly bound, sharp tips, and no markings throughout. Fine, brown dust jacket featuring detail of Casino dell’ Aurora Villa ceiling fresco by Guercino Fama to front, photograph of Grande Galleria, Palazzo Colonna in Rome to back cover, white lettering to covers and spine. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. 484 pp. Replete with 420 brilliant full-color images and  71 black-and-white illustrations of twenty-two fresco cycles, two-thirds of which are from the secular sphere and the rest from sacred places. Includes photography by Antonio Quattrone and Ghigo Roli, Luciano Pedicini, Piero Codato, and Alessandro Vasari. The fifth and final vol