Architecture. Italian Grand Tour: Raccolta di Numo 320 Vedut...

Hammer

£80

Architecture. Italian Grand Tour: Raccolta di Numo 320 Vedute si antiche, che moderne della Cittá di Roma e di alcuni luoghi suburbani, [Rome]: Agapito Franzetti, n.d. [c. 1800], engraved title-page, 80 engraved named-view plates after various artists, occasional pencil annotation, some foxing, early-mid 19th c maroon roan gilt over cloth boards by Stoneham of Woolwich, signed, contemporary red speckled edges, oblong 4to

Provenance: 1) A Memorial of Friendship from J.T.G. Riddell, 1812 ; ink manuscript inscription to title-page verso; 2) Isabella Stoddart, ink MS ownership inscription contemporary to 1812; 3) J. Stoddart, ink MS ownership inscription slightly later than the latter; 4) indistinct ownership inscription dated 1941, ffep; 5) Pauline Baynes (1922-2008), book illustrator, including some of Tolkien's works; inscription presenting the book in 1977 to 6); Julian Bicknell (b. 1945), New Classical architect and designer of the Palladian Henbury Hall, Cheshire; his and his wife's pictorial bookplate to pastedown.