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[ITALIAN]
Nuovi Ritratti di Alcune Belle...
An unusual Italian book that shows beautiful women with their faces partially obscured by a mask.
- Published
- Milan: Presso Pietro e Giuseppe Vallardi, 1823.
- Plates
- 11
- Binding/Size
- Xs=12mo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Milan: Presso Pietro e Giuseppe Vallardi, 1823.
- Ref
- 1445
[New portraits of beautiful women] 12mo. Ten stipple engraved colour plates with tissue guards, all with hand colouring as issued in quarter cloth over modern marbled boards; marbled spine and endpapers; title in gilt to spine; MS signature and inscription to prelim: "R.W. Norman, This book belonged to my Mother - March 1846". All the ladies engraved have a mask to obscure their identities. Coloured plates in order: 1. Coloured vignette title page. 2. Amaranta. 3. Rosmunda. 4. Ezilda. 5. Teodolinda. 6. Ismene. 7. Desdemona. 8. Corinna. 9. Erminia. 10. Fiordiligi. 11. Aglaja.
