CANALETTO: A SUPPLEMENT TO THE CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ J. G. Links 0 9529986 1 0 £99.95 124pp 48pp b/w plates, 1 colour plate Hbk 195 x 253 mm portrait An essential work of reference for any history of art library. Constable/Links, as it is universally known in the trade and in the museum world, is one of the most celebrated and respected of all catalogues raisonnés. First published in 1962, the fruit of over forty years of research by W. G. Constable, it was handed over to J. G. Links in 1969 for the six weeks or so that Constable envisaged was required for a second edition. Six years of hard work later the second edition was finally printed. A revised and updated re-impression followed in 1989, by which time J. G. Links had published a number of other books on Canaletto, as well as keeping up-to-date his classic guidebook Venice for Pleasure - 'the best guidebook to any city ever written' according to Bernard Levin. Since then a great deal of new material has come to light: lost and hitherto unknown paintings have surfaced, as well as receipts from Canaletto's English years and much other documentary material. J. G. Links, still working full time on Canaletto up to the time of his death in 1997 at the age of 92, collected all this new information in a Supplement to the catalogue. On a number of paintings he has also written small essays which illuminate the current state of Canaletto scholarship; and his conclusions are expressed in a wide-ranging Introduction. All the new paintings, and much fresh comparative material, are illustrated in 48 pages of plates. The Supplement is laid out in exactly the same way as the original catalogue, so that it will be familiar to regular users. It incorporates all the supplementary material included in the 1989 re-impression, and so is equally useful when read in conjunction with either the 1976 or the 1989 editions of the catalogue. W. G. Constable (1877-1976) was an assistant director at the National Gallery, the first director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, and later Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Cambridge. J. G. Links, (1904-1997) completed work on this Supplement shortly before he died. His other works include: The Book of Fur, (1956), an abridgement of Ruskin's Stones of Venice (1960, Pallas Athene 2001), Venice for Pleasure (1966, 7th revised edition Pallas Athene 2002), Venice (1967), The Ruskins in Normandy (1968), Views of Venice by Canaletto (1971), Townscape Painting and Drawing (1972), Canaletto (1994), and The Soane Canalettos (1998). He was married to Mary Lutyens, author of Effie in Venice (new edition, Pallas Athene 2001).