Antichi monumenti scoperti in Brescia.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

24/1091

Imprint

Brescia: per Nicolò Bettoni, M.DCCC.XXVIII

Physical Description

[8] p.; 209 mm.

General Note

This is a prospectus with a subscription form for a new publication, Antichi monumenti nuovamente scoperti in Brescia illustrati e delineati con tavole in rame. It is not clear whether this publication was ever produced.

References

See Sir John Soane's Museum Library (ref. no. 1616)

Provenance

Part of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA presented by Mrs Rodwell in 1937 (see RA Annual Report for 1937, p. 55).
Bound (8) in vol. III of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA.
Inscribed in ink on the upper right hand corner of the title-page, 'Richd Westmacott Esqre / R.A.'

Binding Note

In green quarter-bound leather; spine with two red leather labels, both lettered in gilt, the first as 'Miscellaneous' and the second as 'Vol. / III'.

Subject

Excavations (Archaeology) Italy Brescia - Brescia (Italy) Antiquities

Contributors

Mrs. Rodwell, donor
Richard Westmacott the Younger RA, previous owner
Nicolò Bettoni, printer/publisher