Fs.3.03 - Fs.3.04
[Biblioteca italiana]
Biblioteca dell'eloquenza italiana di monsignore Giusto Fontanini, arcivescovo d'Ancira con le annotazioni del signor Apostolo Zeno, istorico e poeta cesareo, cittadino Veneziano.
Venezia, : Presso Giambattista Pasquali., MDCCLIII. [1753]
2 v. ; 26 cm. (4to)
Preface by the publisher, Marco Forcellini.
A revision of the bibliographical part only (last book of the original work) the historical part being omitted.
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.
Title page to v. 1 printed in red and black.
Pagination: v.1: [12], xxvi, [2], 494, [2] p. ; v.2: [4], 515, [1] p.
Woodcut title vignettes, initials, tailpieces.
Errata: p. [1] at end of v. 2.
Gamba (4th ed.), 2241
Besterman, II, 3213
Nouvelle Biographie Générale, VIII, 118
Grässe, II, 612
Engraved armorial bookplate of James Walker of Innerdovat, Esq. M.D.
Engraved bookplate of Eton College.
18th-century sheep; thin gold roll-tooled border; rebacked in early 19th-century calf, gold-tooled, with black leather spine-label; marbled endpapers.
Previously: Cp.5.18-Cp.5.19; Ca.4.07-Ca.4.08; Ge.4.07-Ge.4.08.
Early printed books Italy Early works to 1800.
Italian literature 17th century Bibliography Early works to 1800.
Italian literature 16th century Bibliography Early works to 1800.
Italian literature 15th century Bibliography Early works to 1800.
Pasquali, Giovanni Battista printer.
Forcellini, Marco, 1711 - 1794 publisher.
Zeno, Apostolo, 1668 - 1750 commentator.
Italy Venice.
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