Author: Bodoni, Giambattista, De Rossi, Giovanni Gherardo, Pignotti, Lorenzo

Publisher: Parma: Bodoni 1795.

Description: 61 scherzi plus 40 plates, partly printed on lightly tinted paper, xii 181p, 224p small marbled boards with leather spine and corners, 5 raised gilt-bordered bands, corners worn and showing, cover and spine rubbed, collection of poetic works published separately bound together in one, includes L Pignotti: La Treccia Donata: Poemetto Eroi - Comico, published Capurro 1815; Poesie di Giovanni Fantoni Toscano fra gli arcadi labindo, published Piatti 1817, ' W E Nightingale' bookplate. from a Cambridge college library with barcode and red cancelled stamps, faint red cancelled stamp on top edges, plates on blue card paper, Girton College Cambridge bookplate, small shelf label to spine, pages incredibly clean and well preserved, very faint foxing on approx 2 pages, firm binding, a rare piece, a well preserved copy, discarded from a Cambridge college library

Order No: PIP 121344

Language: Italian

This book has been catalogued with the following subject terms: 18th Century, Book History, Illustrated, Italy, Poetry

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