Accession number
PML 53076-79
Creator
Gallesio, Giorgio, conte, 1772-1839.
Published
Pisa : Presso N. Capurro, 1817-1839.
Credit line
Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1962.
Notes
Issued originally in 41 fasc.
The text with the exception of the introduction, is unpaged and the plates are unnumbered. In all there are 160 colored plates (2 double).
The above includes everything that was published of this superb work. Two further livraisons to contain frontispeieces, tables, etc. based on the MSS. left by Gallesio, were promised; they never appeared. Some of the plates are printed on two sheets, which are in some copies joined. In the enumeration given above double plates are counted as one.
Text and corresponding plates bound following each other. Plates executed in aquatint, stipple or line, printed in color and finished by hand. Various artists designed them, including Domenico del Pino, and others engraved them, including Giuseppe Pera.
The text with the exception of the introduction, is unpaged and the plates are unnumbered. In all there are 160 colored plates (2 double).
The above includes everything that was published of this superb work. Two further livraisons to contain frontispeieces, tables, etc. based on the MSS. left by Gallesio, were promised; they never appeared. Some of the plates are printed on two sheets, which are in some copies joined. In the enumeration given above double plates are counted as one.
Text and corresponding plates bound following each other. Plates executed in aquatint, stipple or line, printed in color and finished by hand. Various artists designed them, including Domenico del Pino, and others engraved them, including Giuseppe Pera.
Description
2 v. in 4 : plates (part col.) ; 49 cm
Provenance
Mrs. Morgan's collection.
Binding
Brown morocco.
Classification
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Department