Opere di Pietro Metastasio. ...
Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Metastasio (1698-1782)
Category
Books
Date
1782 - 1783
Materials
Place of origin
Italy
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3051653
Summary
Bibliographic description
6v. . ill.. (plates), port.. . 12mo.. Imperfect: vols. 1-2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 only. . Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on front pastedown of each vol.: "O Leycester", and "Stamford Weybridge" [i.e. William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford (1850-1910)]. manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "Oswald Leycester for his beloved daughter Catherine Stanley 1842" [i.e. Catherine Stanley, nee Leycester (d..1862), wife of Edward Stanley (1779-1849), Bp of Norwich from her father the Rev. Oswald Leycester (ca.1752-1848), Rector of Stoke]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf bindings; gilt roll on board edges; gold-tooled spines.
Makers and roles
Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Metastasio (1698-1782)