Anonimo - Novelle della Repubblica Letteraria - 1748

Novelle della Repubblica Letteraria for the year 1748. In Venice, printed by Domenico Occhi, 1748. In 8vo, contemporary parchment, pp. (6), 424. The emblem of the Archbishop of Ferrara Marcello Crescenzi to whom the work is dedicated, engraved on the copper frontispiece. Annual publication of all the novelties printed in the year in question, perhaps the first periodical of this kind. Tiny traces of woodworm on the last pages with no textual damage but a beautiful copy with full margins and untrimmed edges.