Author: Metastasio, Pietro

Publisher: Padova: Tipografia del Seminario 1811.

Description: complete run of 16 volumes, approx 300 - 400p each, beautiful set in need of some attention, full calf with fresh gilt borders on cover, 5 gilt-lined raised bands with floral design and green and red leather labels to spines, gilt dentelles, boards detached but present and held together by pink ribbon, volume 16 expertly repaired and intact, head and/ or foot of spine of volumes 1, 8 and 10 missing, spines torn along hinges, small library shelf label to foot of spines, beautiful marbled edges and endpapers, name in ink dated 1815 in neat ink to top of title page, ex libris Girton College and Mrs Constance Woodhead bookplates with barcode and red cancelled stamps, bindings firm, pages incredibly clean, clear print, minor foxing to some pages, engraved frontispiece and several engraving in volume 1, very well preserved set from a Cambridge college library, very good, this edition was sponsored by Foglierini

Order No: PIP 121547

Language: English

This book has been catalogued with the following subject terms: Antiquarian, Bindings, Italy, Opera Omnia, Poetry, Renaissance

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