Shelfmark
Gk.3.16
Author
Title
Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli per cognomina authorum dispositus..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Venetiis, : Typis J. Baptistae Pasquali, MDCCLV. [1755]
Physical description
4 p. l., xliii, dxix (i. e. 517), [1], cccxiviii (i. e. 352), [3] p. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Note
Title page has been printed in red and black. Includes head- and tail-pieces.
Note
Numbers CCCIII-CCCVI repeated in the final group of paging.
Note
Præfationes et epistolæ, voluminibus editis appositæ, ab incunabulis typographí ante annum MCCCCC."
Note
The critical notes are by Giovanni degli Agostini and Girolamo Zanetti. cf. Pref. The collection was made by Smith while consul at Venice; purchased by George IV in 1765 for £10,000 and now forms part of the King's Library at the British Library.
Note
Signatures: *⁴ 2*a-2*l² A-2Y⁴ 2Z⁴(-2Z4) 3A-3T⁴ a-2o⁴ 2p⁴(2p3+[chi]1) χ1 2q⁴(±2q1) 2r-2x⁴.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown and flyleaf.
Binding
18th-century laced-case vellum over pasteboards. Covers decorated with gilted double fillets to form a border with tools at the corners; gilt centrepiece. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets, tools, and titling over brown label ("Bibliotheca Smithiana -- Venetiis 1755"). Textblock trimmed and gilted. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: DDl.5.1.
Subject
Early printed books Italy Bibliography Catalogs Early works to 1800.
Subject
Rare books Italy Bibliography Catalogs Early works to 1800.
Subject
Incunabula Italy Bibliography Catalogs Early works to 1800.
Subject
Private libraries Italy Catalogs Early works to 1800.
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British Library Department of Printed Books.
Added entry--place
Italy Venice.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B51330