Achille Bertarelli e Henry Prior - Il biglietto di visita italiano - 1911

Achille Bertarelli - Henry Prior
The Italian Visiting Card. A Contribution to the History of Costume and Engraving in the 18th Century. With 676 illustrations, 80 of them from the original plates. Bergamo, Italian Institute of Graphic Arts, 1911.
First edition, in folio, with 676 illustrations, 80 of them from the original plates.
Publisher’s cloth binding with decorated front cover. Excellent condition. 360 × 285 mm, 215 pp., with an engraved frontispiece protected by a captioned tissue guard, hundreds of faithful reproductions in the text and on plates outside the text, including color illustrations and, in some cases, relief prints or woodcuts. Publisher’s full-cloth binding with gilt ornament on the front cover; gilt lettering on the spine, gilt edges, and endpapers in fine decorated paper. Excellent state of preservation, with minimal signs of age.