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This guide to
Vicenza was written in the form of a dialogue
between an imaginary English grand
tourist 'Guglielmo' and his cicerone 'Leandro' , who is really the
author.
The book is almost wholly devoted to the great buildings of Palladio and
Scamozzi. Each building is given a careful description and critical analysis. Bertotti-Scamozzi later published
his great edition of Palladio's works (l776-l783).
Overall the pages are clean and bright with only the occasional soiling.
Page 15, 70, and the plate
on page 63, have all had minor repairs
to small tears.
This book is everything a well made book should be; the
text and plates are finely printed on good handmade paper and the the
engravings are well executed.
A pleasure to hold and read.
The Binding
Rebound
in terracotta
hand dyed native morocco goatskin with elaborate hand tooling
in style of Italian
eighteenth century bindings (British
Library, c68aa13,
Davis
832). In place of
an armorial
block,
the binding is studded with 36 sapphires, 12 yellow and six blue
sapphires, all set in silver rods clustered together at the centre of the
front and back boards. The front and
back boards are set with eight 9 carat
gold
bosses to the corners and ther is simple decorative
tooling
to the dentelles
and board edges, with period style marbled endpapers.
The spine has five raised bands and all the edges of the book retain the
original
red stippling.
DTRSCAM.001
£8,200.00
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