Parnaso del'em.mo cardinal Delfino. Dedicato al ill.mo & eccel.mo sign.re il sign.re Guglielmo milord e marchese di Blandford. &c. &c. &c.
Giovanni Delfino (1617-1699)
Category
Books
Date
1730
Materials
Place of origin
Utrecht
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3222214
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 pts. in 1 v. : ill. ; 8vo. Running number: 7424. Water staining throughout. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century gold-tooled red goatskin (water stained); sewn on five raised bands; covers have gilt fillet and roll pattern border (one of the rolls with a repeated bird on vine motif), cornerpieces, and strapwork centrepiece; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title lettered directly onto spine. Gilt gauffered textblock edges. Comb and swirl pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Delfino (1617-1699) Giuseppe De Angelis Bernard Picart (Paris 1673 - Amsterdam 1733)