The spine of the contemporary boards binding was defective and there was some minor, mainly marginal soiling, but it brought a ten times estimate bid of £4400 from Marlborough Rare Books.
Phillips, London, February 16
Buyer’s premium: 15/10 per cent
Via Crucis
UK: ONE of the scarcer plate collections in the Phillips sale was Via Crucis, novellamente eretta nell’ Atrio del Santissimo Crocifisso della chiesa parochiale, e collegiata di S.Polo. Engraved throughout, this small quarto Venetian volume of c.1780 comprises 16 full-page illustrations of the Stations of the Cross by Leonardis after Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, plus 29 pages of text.
