Antichità di Pozzuoli.
Paulo Antonio Paoli (1720-1790)
Category
Books
Date
1768
Materials
Place of origin
Naples
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3092727
Summary
Bibliographic description
36, [2], LXVIII [i.e. 69] leaves (4 folded) ; fol. Pencil initials "N.Gn[?]" on front pastedown. Pencil number "2863" on front pastedown. Pencil price (partially erased) on front pastedown: "£8.10." with date "1768". Pencil note "By P.A. Paoli" on front free endpaper. Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript catalogue card. Provenance: armorial spade shield bookplate (Franks 30545): 'John Waldie'. Printed shelf label: 'Fine Arts No.', with "586" added in ink. 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: Eighteenth-century half calf, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine; green morocco spine label, gilt lettered: 'Natali antichità di Pozzuoli'.
Makers and roles
Paulo Antonio Paoli (1720-1790), author