VASARI, Giorgio. [Le vite de piu eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori... co' rittrati loro con le nuove vite dal 1550 infino al 1567.] Florence: Giunta, 1568. 2 volumes only (of 3, i.e. part 3, vols.I and II), 4° (231 x 157mm). Architectural woodcut title-borders (both shaved with loss), vol.I with small Giunta lily device on title and large device at end, vol.II with small lily device on recto of final leaf and a large allegorical block depicting the awakening of the souls of dead artists (within an architectural border) on the verso, woodcut medallion portraits of artists, each set within a border with female figures representing the arts. (Outer margins of b3 and b4 of vol.I repaired just affecting a few characters, vol.II with duplicate gathering EEeee.) Old vellum (soiled). Provenance: unidentified marginal notes in an early hand; Dl. Rich (signature); Jessie Stuart (signature). Second edition, first illustrated edition. Cf. Mortimer, Harvard Italian 515.