BARETTI, Giuseppe Marc' Antonio (1719-89). An Introduction to the Italian Language, London, for A. Millar, 1755, 8°, FIRST EDITION, half title (X1 holed at upper margin, X6 torn at upper margin slightly affecting text, 2G2-3 stained at outer margins), contemporary calf (upper joints cracked) [Courtney & Smith p.73 and Supplement p. 139; Hazen Johnson's Prefaces p. 12]; and 7 others by Baretti and Mrs. Piozzi. (8)

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BARETTI, Giuseppe Marc' Antonio (1719-89). An Introduction to the Italian Language, London, for A. Millar, 1755, 8°, FIRST EDITION, half title (X1 holed at upper margin, X6 torn at upper margin slightly affecting text, 2G2-3 stained at outer margins), contemporary calf (upper joints cracked) [Courtney & Smith p.73 and Supplement p. 139; Hazen Johnson's Prefaces p. 12]; and 7 others by Baretti and Mrs. Piozzi. (8)

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Johnson almost certainly wrote the Preface for Baretti and the footnotes on pp. 48 and 198.

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