Library's copy 1 is trimmed to 33 cm

Binding: copy 1 is bound in modern quarter calf, with gilt spine and marbled boards. Copy 2 is bound in old half vellum with marbled boards. Copy 2 includes a contemporary engraved bookplate pasted inside the front cover, signed by G. Bozza

Illustrations: frontispiece depicting a triumphal arch erected at the entrance to the Canale Grande, engraved by Giacinto Maina after Giovanni Antonio Selva and Giuseppe Borsato. Four numbered aquatint plates executed by Ferdinando Albertolli: one depicting the facade and the ground-plan of the triumphal arch after Selva, two plates of festive gondolas that were taking part in the regatta (c.f. Vinet) after Rizzi and Borsato, and a plate depicting the facade and the ground-plan of a temporary structure after Borsato. The plates are aquatints accordingly to Vinet

Cicognara. Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte

Vinet. E. Bibliographie méthodique et raisonnée des beaux-arts

Lipperheidesche Kostümbibliothek (2. Aufl.)

Oechslin, W. Festarchitectur

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 1535

Vinet. E. Bibliographie méthodique et raisonnée des beaux-arts

Lipperheidesche Kostümbibliothek (2. Aufl.)

32 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : 36 cm

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