On Ugliness

New York: Rizzoli, 2007. First English Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Companion volume to Eco's The History of Beauty. Translated from the original Italian by Alastair McEwan, thus a First U.S. Edition Thus exemplar. Chapters devoted to ugliness in the Classical World; Passion, Death, Martyrdom; The Apocalypse, Hell, and the Devil; Monsters and Portents; The Ugly, the Comic, and the Obscene; The Ugliness of Woman from Antiquity to the Baroque Period; the Devil in the Modern World; Witchcraft, Satanism, Sadism; Physica curiosa; Romanticism and the Redemption of Ugliness; and many more. Clean inside and out, no discernible wear to the bright, blank white cloth over boards, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected, clean, tightly bound interior but for final endpaper showing ink-stamp and remains perhaps of a bookplate, ink-stamp along top edge denoting ex-library status, but unobtrusive. Hundreds of illustrations augment the learned text. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Frontis matter, 455 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.