I giardini d'Italia. Anno I

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Author:  s.a.

Publisher:  Società Tipografica de' Classici Italiani

Place of printing:  Milan

Year of publication:  1834

Product Condition:
Example in good condition. Blank cloth binding with gilt friezes on the spine and on the edges of the plates: traces of dust on the plates and slight abrasions on the corners and headphones. The volume is placed in a canvas cardboard case, with traces of dust, abrasions at the edges, bearing the same friezes present in the volume. Cataloging label on the front pastedown partially removed, abrasions on the same and on the first blank page. Cuts with traces of dust. Well preserved papers, with rare foxing on the upper margins. The five plates present are preceded by a thin sheet of tissue paper which, in three cases, has left a burnished halo on the following paper. Text in Italian language.

Pages:  (8),144, XVI,(2)

Format:  In the twenty-fourth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  12
Width:  8

Description

Classic end-of-year gift (the Journal for the year 1834 appears at the end of the volume, complete with calendar, movable feasts and eclipses foreseen for the year). dedicated to the theme of the Garden: in the long Foreword, the author, who signs himself MS, gives an excursus on the history of garden architecture, becoming the spokesperson for the romantic taste of the "English" garden, claiming its Italian roots. The volume then presents 10 gardens of different types and periods: Villa Reale in Naples, Caserta, Boboli, the agricultural garden in Florence, Pratolino, the Treves Garden in Padua, Savonara, the Borromean Islands, the Torri de' Picenardi, IR Villa di Monza. The text is embellished with 5 beautiful engravings protected by tissue paper

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