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 3141882
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1] printed leaf; 66 [i.e. 67] leaves of plates . ill.., port.. . fol.. Imperfect: contains parts 1-7 [plates 1-35], part 10 [plates 46-50], two copies of part 12 [plates 56-60], and part 13 [plates 61-66]. One copy of part 12 includes printed label telling subscribers that following volumes will cost 7s. 6d. rather than 6s. but will each contain an additional plate. Binding: Unbound. Loosely sewn inside eighteenth-century grey or brown paper covers, manuscript numbering on covers.
Makers and roles
Michelangelo Pergolesi (fl.1777-1801)