Gemme d'arti italiane. Anno ottavo 1855
Features
Author: s.a.
Publisher: Paolo Ripamonti Carpano
Place of printing: Milan - Venice - Verona
Year of publication: 1855
Product Condition:
Copy in good condition. Damaged and dirty binding with titles and illustration on the front cover on an applied sheet; the decorations on the spine and covers are partly erased, serious widespread abrasions; small paper insert with the word octavo in Roman numerals applied to the front cover. The headphones, edges and curved corners have abrasions and small losses. Light blue endpapers. Well preserved leaves with wide margins and scattered foxing; text of the leaves framed by rich floral-themed frames. Plates in good condition, with foxing in the margins, protected by sheets of tissue paper. Pencil annotations on the first flyleaf and the first title page. Brown stain affecting the lower margin of the leaves from page 87 to page 102; foxing in the lateral margin from page 115 to the end of the volume. Text in Italian.
Pages: (8),XXXV,(1),144,(2)
Format: In eighth
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 27
Width: 20
Description
Ambitious annual publication by the publisher Paolo Ripamonti Carpano, known above all for his precious Christmas gifts illustrated with beautiful chromolithographs, welcome gifts on the occasion of New Year's Eve in the families of the 19th century bourgeoisie. Published starting in 1845, suspended in 1849 and resumed in 1852, the Gemme d'arti italiane had the ambitious aim of presenting themselves as a brief excursus of the artistic panorama of the moment through engravings and descriptions of works by painters and sculptors of the time. In our volume we propose 10 beautiful copper-engraved plates, preceded by a double frontispiece (the second in chromolithograph), the dedication to the Marchese Paolo Rescalli and a long introduction by Antonio Zoncada. The plates are followed by the Notes on the Exhibition of Fine Arts in Brera for the year 1854 and the Memories on the public exhibition of Fine Arts in the Academy of Venice (August 1854) by Benedetto Vollo.
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