Shelfmark
Fs.3.03 - Fs.3.04
Author
Uniform title
[Biblioteca italiana]
Title
Biblioteca dell'eloquenza italiana di monsignore Giusto Fontanini, arcivescovo d'Ancira con le annotazioni del signor Apostolo Zeno, istorico e poeta cesareo, cittadino Veneziano.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Venezia, : Presso Giambattista Pasquali., MDCCLIII. [1753]
Physical description
2 v. ; 26 cm. (4to)
Note
Preface by the publisher, Marco Forcellini.
Note
A revision of the bibliographical part only (last book of the original work) the historical part being omitted.
Note
The most important of the 18th century editions of this celebrated work which first appeared in 1706 with 1500 entries. Between 1727 and 1737 there were three further editions. The 1753 (with 5000 entries) is virtually the definitive edition of this great bibliographical work.
Note
Title page to v. 1 printed in red and black.
Note
Pagination: v.1: [12], xxvi, [2], 494, [2] p. ; v.2: [4], 515, [1] p.
Note
Woodcut title vignettes, initials, tailpieces.
Note
Errata: p. [1] at end of v. 2.
Citation/references note
Gamba (4th ed.), 2241
Citation/references note
Besterman, II, 3213
Citation/references note
Nouvelle Biographie Générale, VIII, 118
Citation/references note
Grässe, II, 612
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of James Walker of Innerdovat, Esq. M.D.
Provenance
Engraved bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
18th-century sheep; thin gold roll-tooled border; rebacked in early 19th-century calf, gold-tooled, with black leather spine-label; marbled endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Previously: Cp.5.18-Cp.5.19; Ca.4.07-Ca.4.08; Ge.4.07-Ge.4.08.
Subject
Early printed books Italy Early works to 1800.
Subject
Italian literature 17th century Bibliography Early works to 1800.
Subject
Italian literature 16th century Bibliography Early works to 1800.
Subject
Italian literature 15th century Bibliography Early works to 1800.
Genre/Form
Bibliographies.
Added entry--name
Pasquali, Giovanni Battista printer.
Added entry--name
Forcellini, Marco, 1711 - 1794 publisher.
Added entry--name
Zeno, Apostolo, 1668 - 1750 commentator.
Added entry--place
Italy Venice.
Language code
ita
Identifier
B40556