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MAPEI, Camillo. Italy, classical, historical and picturesque. Illustrated in a series of views by Stanfield, Roberts, Harding, Prout, Leitch, Brockedon, Barnard, &c.. Glasgow: Blackie and Son, [(?) 1847].
4° (336 x 239mm). Engraved frontispiece, additional title and 59 plates. (Frontispiece and additional title spotted, lighter spotting to some plates.) Contemporary red morocco gilt (extremities rubbed, front inner hinges split), marbled endpapers, g.e. Provenance: George Wilson (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY. Published in parts. There were later editions in 1859 and 1864, the latter entitled Italy illustrated and described. Some of the plates are extracted from William Brockedon's Italy, classical, historical and picturesque. Pine-Coffin 8479.
4° (336 x 239mm). Engraved frontispiece, additional title and 59 plates. (Frontispiece and additional title spotted, lighter spotting to some plates.) Contemporary red morocco gilt (extremities rubbed, front inner hinges split), marbled endpapers, g.e. Provenance: George Wilson (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY. Published in parts. There were later editions in 1859 and 1864, the latter entitled Italy illustrated and described. Some of the plates are extracted from William Brockedon's Italy, classical, historical and picturesque. Pine-Coffin 8479.