The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atheneum, 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1st Printing Stated: First American Edition 1994. First Printing per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition. Black boards with beige spine cloth containing silver spine lettering. Bump to the top front board. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Text block edge uncut. Dust jacket good but showing some shelf & edge wear and a 1/2 inch chip / strip across top of inside front flap running to outside corner (corresponds to bump noted above to corner of board.) If there was a price, it was on this missing strip. Near top side edge also has about 5 holes that appear to have been made by a pencil point and a rough edge along those points. Chip does not appear to have removed any printing but for price if one was present. See the two photos. Contains some black & white illustrations/photographs throughout. Concludes with chapter end notes, a Bibliography, and a comprehensive Index. 648 pages. * From the front flap, '. . . extraordinarily rich and engaging book, . . . on a grand canvas . . . 'an investigative impression' of one of the highest points of European civilization: the flourishing, between 1450 and 1620, of the period we have come to call the Renaissance. . . '