Shelfmark
Gg.3.05
Author
Title
De dea Libertate ejusque cultu apud Romanos et de libertinorum pileo dissertatio Rodulphini Venuti Cortonensis reg. acad. Londin. socii, & Roman antiquit. præsidis..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Romæ, : Typis Bernabò et Lazzarini apud Faustum Amideum, MDCCLXII. [1762]
Physical description
[8], 63, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Note
Engraved plates of illustrations; engraved title-page vignette; engraved initials and head- and tail-pieces.
Note
Signatures: *⁴ A-H⁴.
Note
Written at the request of Thomas Hollis who acquired fifty copies from Venuti which he distributed to libraries and friends -- see: Francis Blackburne "Memoirs of Thomas Hollis Esq" (London: printed by J. Nichols, 1780) vol. I, p.157. The plates in the book represent many of the coins that provide sources for Hollis's emblems of liberty found as binding tools on the books he distributed -- see: W. H. Bond "Thomas Hollis of Lincoln's Inn: a whig and his books" (Cambridge: CUP, 1990), p. 62.
Provenance
Inscription on front flyleaf: For the public library at Eaton College. [In a different hand] The gift of the author.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College Library.
Binding
Contemporary light green and gold brocade paper wrapper; deckled edges. Stored in a late 20th or early 21st century solander box with yellow and brown marbled paper covering boards and brown, gold tooled calf on spine.
Copy-specific note
Front and rear endleaves are decorated with 'smoke prints': prints made with ash from the binding stamps designed by Giovanni Battista Cipriani for Thomas Hollis in the early 1750s. On the front leaf these include a caduceus, horn of plenty and liberty cap, with an inscription below reading 'Felicity is freedom & freedom is magnanimity'. The rear leaf shows Britannia, an owl and a cockerel.
Copy-specific note
One of the four plates has been bound as a frontispiece.
Subject
Liberty Religious aspects Early works to 1800.
Subject
Liberty caps (Headgear) Early works to 1800.
Subject
Slaves Emancipation Early works to 1800.
Subject
Rome Religion Early works to 1800.
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Amidei, Fausto bookseller.
Added entry--place
Italy Rome
Identifier
B49829