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A' dilettanti delle bell'arti;: A decorated alphabet engraved by Giovanni Battista Betti, Florence, 1785 by Betti, Giovanni Battista - 1969 2019-08-22

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A' dilettanti delle bell'arti;: A decorated alphabet engraved by Giovanni Battista Betti, Florence, 1785 by Betti, Giovanni Battista - 1969 2019-08-22

A' dilettanti delle bell'arti;: A decorated alphabet engraved by Giovanni Battista Betti, Florence, 1785

by Betti, Giovanni Battista

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Harvard College Library, Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, 1969 2019-08-22. PAPERBACK. Very Good. Tight binding, sharp corners, bright copy throughout.
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  • Publisher Harvard College Library, Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts
  • Date Published 1969 2019-08-22

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A' Dilettanti Delle Bell'Arti

by Betti, Giovanni Battista

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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969. BM4 - Book has significant discoloration and shelf wear. A Decorated Alphabet Engraved by Giovanni Battista Betti Florence, 1785.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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A' Dilettanti delle Bell' Arti [title page]

A' Dilettanti delle Bell' Arti [title page]

by BETTI, Giovanni Battista

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Florence, 1779. unbound. Engraving. Image size 7.25 x 7.75 inches. Sheet size 9 x 11.5 inches.<br/><br/> Title page from A Dilettanti delle Bell'Arti, a rare decorated alphabet book. In very good condition. Shows some staining. Stitching holes at left edge. Numeral 1 in pencil at right top corner. Beautiful composition.<br/><br/>
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A' Dilettanti delle Bell'Arti.
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A' Dilettanti delle Bell'Arti.

by Betti, Giovanni Battista

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1779. BETTI, Giovanni Battista. A' Dilettanti delle Bell'Arti. Contents includes illustrated engraved title and 24 engraved plates. Oblong folio, 220 x 300 mm, bound in contemporary paste-paper wrappers, preserved in a red half morocco folding box. Florence: 1779. First Edition of Betti's imaginative illustrated alphabet-book, containing 24 full-page oblong plates of richly ornamented capital letters, each letter standing in a bucolic landscape with a corresponding figure from Greek or Roman mythology. It is a work "rare and distinctive for the range of its subjects" (DBI) and draws heavily on the imagery of pastoral Greece. 6 copies in America according to OCLC. Getty, Harvard, NYPL, Redwood Library, Austin, Newberry. An unsophisticated copy, with occasional spots and minor stains, but nevertheless an appealing copy. Bonacini 200; Berlin Kat. 5300; Guilmard 332: See Garvey, E.M. Introduction to the 1969 Facsimile published by Harvard.
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