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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.

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Added entry--place

Italy Venice.

Language code

ita

Identifier

B40556
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