Vermeer, Johannes — Vermeer de Delft

[Paris], La Galerie de la Pleiade, 1952. Softcover. Oversized tan stiff wraps with orange design on front cover and black lettering on front and spine; 128 [6] pp, color frontispiece tipped-in; illustrated throughout in bw with color plates tipped-in. Text is in French. "The introduction to this work, which reproduces in colors, for the first time, the entire work of Vermeer de Delft, is made up of pages on Vermeer by Marcel Proust, and by an artist who has never been known .. D ' Andre Malraux. The main texts devoted to Vermeer, and due to: P. Claudel, L. Daudet, M. Du Camp, E. Estaunie, E. Fromentin, Th. Gautier, L. Gillet, E. and J. De Goncourt, J. Huizinga, A. Lhote, A. Malraux, Thore-Burger, Renoir and Van Gogh Support the work of specialists in Vermeerian studies, the list of which appears at the top of the documentation." translated from front flyleaf. VG- (overall scuffing and age toning to wraps, wear and scuffing to block, small chips to edges of spine, age toning to pages but text and plates are otherwise very clean.) .