Accurata, e succinta descrizione topografica delle antichità di Roma . dell' abate Ridolfino Venuti ...
Ridolfino Venuti (1705-1763)
Category
Books
Date
1763
Materials
Place of origin
Italy
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3049790
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.,96 plates (1 folding) . ill.. . 4to.. Identified in 1768 catalogue: F.5. The second copy has some binding variants: the final dedicatory leaf featuring the colophon is bound after the title page of vol. 1 in the second copy, but at the end of vol. 2 in the first. The folding map of Rome is bound after p.XXXVI of vol. 1 in the second copy, but between pp. XII and XIII of vol. 1 in the first copy.. Provenance: Bookplate on front pastedown: Armorial, Grey and Booth quarterings impaling Cavendish-Bentinck: George Harry Grey, 5th earl of Stamford & 1st earl of Warrington (2nd cr.) (1737-1819), pasted over an earlier plate of the 5th earl, surmounted with the baronet's coronet [i.e.: after marriage in 1763 but prior to assumption of earldom of Stamford in 1768].. Binding: Marbled paper over stiff card; loosely stitched (6 holes); edges roughly cut; some quires uncut on top edge; spine lettered in manuscript directly onto paper.
Makers and roles
Ridolfino Venuti (1705-1763) Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Mogliano 1720 – Rome 1778) Niccolò Mogalli (b.1723)