A beautiful red smooth-backed morocco quarto book decorated and lettered in gilt to boards and spine. Highlighting 13 hand-coloured engravings depicting the Loggia of the Vatican in Rome; Raphael's magnificent wall and ceiling paintings. Marbled endpapers, tissue guards, official stamp in red to a front prelim. Boards lightly rubbed and worn, illustrated pages cut and pasted onto contemporary beige coloured paper. The detail in each illustration is excellent. Numbered in pencil. Coloured plates in order: 1. Exquisite panel with four inset squares showing God creating Sun, Moon, Earth, Animals, etc. 2. Exquisite panel with four inset squares showing Cain & Abel and Adam & Eve etc. 3. Exquisite panel with four inset squares showing Noah's Ark, animals in pairs, etc. 4. Exquisite panel with four inset squares showing Angels appearing to Abraham etc. 5. Exquisite panel with four inset squares showing the Lord appearing to Isaac etc. 6. Exquisite panel with four inset squares showing Jacob's Dream and Jacob's encounter with Rachael etc. 7. Exquisite panel with four inset squares showing Joseph with his brothers etc. 8. Exquisite panel with four inset squares showing Moses found, the parting of the Red Sea, etc. 9. Exquisite panel with four inset squares showing Moses and the ten commandments on top of Mt.Sinai etc. 10. Exquisite panel with four inset squares showing the destruction of the Walls of Jericho etc. 11. Exquisite panel with four inset squares showing King David riding in triumph etc. 12. Exquisite panel with four inset squares showing the Judgement of Solomon etc 13. Exquisite panel with four inset squares showing The Last Supper etc.