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LORY, Gabriel, père et fils. -- Paolo FUMAGALLI. Viaggio Pittorico fatto da Ginevra a Milano per la strada del Sempione. Translated from the French. Milan: Giulio Ferrario, 1820.
2° (415 x 295mm). Half-title, parallel text in Italian and French. 4 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Fumagalli after the Lorys. (Some offsetting of text onto the first plate, margin of the final plate somewhat browned). Contemporary red morocco gilt attributed to Lodigiani, covers with elaborate fillet and roll-tool border enclosing a central panel with fan-shaped corner-pieces surrounding four interlocking circles, centrally-placed , containing foliage tools, flat spine in eight compartments delineated by roll-tools, with alternate trophy tools in all but the lowest compartment, gilt turn-ins, green watered-silk liners, g.e. (very light scuffing to extremities).
A RARE WORK IN A VERY FINE EMPIRE STYLE BINDING. An Italian version version of the anonymous Pittoresque Voyage de Geneve a Milan (Paris: 1811), the Italian text is by Fumagalli who also engraved four of the 35 plates included in the 1811 Paris publication. Lodigiani, one of the best known binders of his era, was active in Milan from 1807 to 1821. A follower of Bozerian's style of binding, his most important client was Prince Eugène de Beauharnais.
2° (415 x 295mm). Half-title, parallel text in Italian and French. 4 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Fumagalli after the Lorys. (Some offsetting of text onto the first plate, margin of the final plate somewhat browned). Contemporary red morocco gilt attributed to Lodigiani, covers with elaborate fillet and roll-tool border enclosing a central panel with fan-shaped corner-pieces surrounding four interlocking circles, centrally-placed , containing foliage tools, flat spine in eight compartments delineated by roll-tools, with alternate trophy tools in all but the lowest compartment, gilt turn-ins, green watered-silk liners, g.e. (very light scuffing to extremities).
A RARE WORK IN A VERY FINE EMPIRE STYLE BINDING. An Italian version version of the anonymous Pittoresque Voyage de Geneve a Milan (Paris: 1811), the Italian text is by Fumagalli who also engraved four of the 35 plates included in the 1811 Paris publication. Lodigiani, one of the best known binders of his era, was active in Milan from 1807 to 1821. A follower of Bozerian's style of binding, his most important client was Prince Eugène de Beauharnais.