Publisher's Synopsis
'The editor in this outstanding instance has performed his task with the finest judgement ans scholarship. ' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'This is a book which will rightly take its place as an important contribution to the proper understanding of the stature of Leonardo as an artist and draughtsman, essential to the student and both enlightening and interesting to the general reader. ' STUDIO Originally two-thirds conceived and collected by Sir Kenneth Clark, the work continued and completed by A. E. Popham, Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. It is the most comprehensive collection of da Vinci's drawings ever to be published. The Pimlico edition will have a new introduction by Martin Kemp, head of art history at St Andrew's University.
