Viaggio pittorico e storico ai tre laghi Maggiore, di Lugano, e Como.
Carlo Amoretti (1741 - 1816)
Category
Books
Date
1818
Materials
Place of origin
Milan
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3084540
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], XLII leaves, [50] leaves of plates : col. ill. (aquatints) ; obl. 4to. Pencil number "7108" on rear free endpaper. Pencil tick on front free endpaper verso. Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "50 plates". Ephemera: (1) clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy (price: £24) and (2) typescript copy of clipping from bookdealer's catalogue loosely inserted. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: NIneteenth-century half blue-green stained calf, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto five recessed cords; spine gilt; crimson spine label (gilt lettered): 'Viaggio ai tre laghi Maggiore, di Lugano, e di Como'; marbled textblock edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Carlo Amoretti (1741 - 1816), author