PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista and others. Diverse maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte dall'architettura Egizia, Etrusca, Greca. Rome: Generoso Salomon, 1769.
2o (535 x 406 mm). Texts in Italian, English, and French. Additional double-page etched title, 70 etched plates (one with 2 illustrations), 2 etchings in text. 19th-century half calf, spine with two gilt lettered morocco labels (one labed stamped "Tom IV"). Provenance: Edmond L. Lincoln (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. Piranesi's celebrated chimneypiece designs very effectively demonstrate the imaginative application of the past to the present since this interior feature had no precedent in antiquity. Brunet IV:672; Hind p. 86; Wilton-Ely pp. 886 ff.
PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista and others. Diverse maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte dall'architettura Egizia, Etrusca, Greca. Rome: Generoso Salomon, 1769.
2o (535 x 406 mm). Texts in Italian, English, and French. Additional double-page etched title, 70 etched plates (one with 2 illustrations), 2 etchings in text. 19th-century half calf, spine with two gilt lettered morocco labels (one labed stamped "Tom IV"). Provenance: Edmond L. Lincoln (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. Piranesi's celebrated chimneypiece designs very effectively demonstrate the imaginative application of the past to the present since this interior feature had no precedent in antiquity. Brunet IV:672; Hind p. 86; Wilton-Ely pp. 886 ff.
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