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Ridolfino Venuti (1705-1763)
Category
Books
Date
1763
Materials
Place of origin
Italy
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3049790.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.2.,plates . ill.. . 4to.. Identified in 1768 catalogue: F.5. 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); edge 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)