Accession number:
PML 152749
Published:
[s.l. : s.n., ca. 1750-55]
Description:
[6] ll., [27] leaves of plates : ill. (pen-and-wash drawings) ; 23.5 cm
Credit:
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes:
Title from spine.
Album of twenty-seven drawings of Minorcan costumes and scenery executed in wash and flesh tones with a black border mounted on guarded buff color paper. Three blank leaves in front and back.
"Drawings by Joseph Chicia, circa 1750-1755"--label in black ink on recto of leaf [3]
"H.V. Day, Old & Rare Books, Maps and Prints, Dorchester"--label inside upper cover.
Binding:
Jansenist style full olive morocco, gold tooled spine title and inside dentelles, by Zaehnsdorf, his emblem stamped in gold on inner lower cover. In marbled green and brown slipcase.
Provenance:
Bookplate initialed ALF; from the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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