- Author
- [ITALIAN]
- Title
- Nuovi Ritratti di Alcune Belle...
- Published
- Milan: Presso Pietro e Giuseppe Vallardi, 1823.
- Description
- [New portraits of beautiful women] 12mo. 10 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.
- Hand coloured plates
- 11
- Binding/Size
- Xs=12mo
- Category
- Costume, Italy, Portraits
- Value
- $0-5,000
- Stock ID
- 1445
