Antonio Frizzi - Album Estense a corredo della Storia di Ferrara / Album della Maison D'Este. - 1850

Ferrara, Abramo Servadio Publisher, 1850. Folio, frontispiece steel-engraved (“Porta di Schifanoja”), frontispiece with a small engraved vignette, 175 + 4 pages of Index, text in Italian and French on facing pages, within a frame; many plates, most engraved in black and white steel, and some others in tonographic (Fratelli Doyen) depicting monuments and points of interest of the city (the Castle, the Cathedral, the Cemetery, and the University of Ferrara); the plates representing Borso and Leonello d’Este are finely hand-coloured in good contemporary colouring; those of the other rulers of the city, together with those of Tasso and Ariosto, are uncoloured. Original binding in gray cloth with small gold titles on the boards (“A Memory of Ferrara that L. A. T. offers to Anna Hersche on May 1, 1861”), dry-stamped tooling on the boards, watered endpapers, and pink wove flyleaves. Important textual compilation enriched by the plates. Signs and wear from use to the binding, copy slightly yellowed (more pronounced browning on some pages), sporadic foxing on some pages; loose plates are a little trimmed but still in wide margins, overall in more than decent condition.