Accession number:
PML 6186
Published:
Napoli, Presso Giovanni Gravier, 1764.
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, by 1906.
Description:
2 v. : front. (port.) 21 cm.
Notes:
On education, rearing of children, industry, arts and sciences, etc.
First published in Bologna, 1752.
PML copy is vol. 1 only.
Dedicated to and bound for Edward Augustus, Duke of York (1739-1767). The Duke's arms engraved at the head of the Dedicatory Epistle.
Binding:
Italian, 18th century embroidered binding of colored and metal threads on red silk. German gilt paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Provenance:
Edward August, Duke of York, dedication copy in armorial binding; unidentified shelfmark: A III No. 23 (front endleaf 2 verso); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from J. Pearson & Co. with the English Royal Bindings collection, by 1906.
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