Shelfmark
Go.7.01
Author
Title
An introduction to the Italian language. Containing specimens both of prose and verse: selected from Francesco Redi, Galileo Galilei, Eustachio Manfredi, Giampietro Zanotti, Annibale Caro, Antonmaria Salvini, Rafaello da Urbino, Baldassare Castiglione, Andrea Navagero, Francesco Guicciardini, Caterino Davila, Niccolò Macchiavelli, Giovangiorgio Trissino, Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro Metastasio, Lodovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, Lorenzo Giustiniano, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Angelo Poliziano, Lorenzo de' Medici, Girolamo Fracastoro, Margherita di Valois, Regina di Navarra, Giovanni della Casa, Lorenzo Bellini, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Milton. With a literal translation and grammatical notes, for the use of those who being already acquainted with grammar, attempt to learn it without a master. By Giuseppe Baretti..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand., MDCCLV. [1755]
Physical description
xi, [1], 467, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Italian text, with parallel English prose translation.
Note
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T83930
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Lord John Sommers on front pastedown.
Provenance
Plain modern label of Eton College Library on front pastedown.
Binding
18th-century calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with double gilt fillets to form a border; blind roll on boards edges (now damaged). Spine with five raised bands, decorated with double gilt fillets; title label missing. Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red. Endpapers of undecorated laid paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Ms. notes on front flyleaves, including "Nash" and "First edition"; "Part of the preface and the footnotes on pp. 48 and 198, were written by Dr Samuel Johnson".
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmarks: Go.7.21, DDi.12.07.
Subject
Italian language Readers.
Added entry--name
Millar, Andrew, 1707 - 1768 publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng ita ita
Identifier
B51079