A great variety of original designs . of vases, figures, medalions, frizes, pilasters, pannels and other ornaments, in the Etruscan and Grotesque Style; executed in the most finished manner. The numbers will consist of five places; every plate containing three different designs, to be published monthly, at the price of five shillings to subscribers. Eight shillings ever second number to non-subscribers. Printed on superfine imperial paper, fit for colouring. (Each number to be paid for on delivery.) The whole designed, and etched by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, who has long applied his attention to the ornaments of the ancients, and has had the honour of designing and painting rooms, ceilings, staircases and ornaments, for several of the nobility and gentry of this kingdom. ...
Michelangelo Pergolesi (fl.1777-1801)
Category
Books
Date
1777 - 1792
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3141881
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1] printed leaf; 66 [i.e. 67] leaves of plates . ill.., port.. . fol.. With two articles from the Architectural Review about this book and the relationship between Pergolesi and Adam loosely inserted at front. Binding: Nineteenth-century half sprinkled leather binding; marbled paper over boards; false bands; spine gilt decorated and spine label gilt lettered: "Designs by Pergolesi".
Makers and roles
Michelangelo Pergolesi (fl.1777-1801)