ILLUSTRATIONS, BINDING AND VERSE!

[Mattei, Saverio]: Uffizio della B.V. Maria secondo la volgata edizione. Glossa Latina, parafrasi Italiana, e dissertazione liturgica di Saverio Mattei. Siena, presso Pazzini Carli 1777.

Fine copy of this attractive and illustrated edition of the Office of the Virgin Mary, it includes introduction and Italian verse translation by the Enlightenment figure Saverio Mattei (1742-1795), poet, musicologist, legal reformer inspired by Beccaria, and correspondent of Cesarotti and Metastasio.

Details

First edition thus. 8vo., (12 cms. x 18 cms.), pp. [6] xlviii 345 [1] + frontispiece and seven further engraved plates. A fine copy, bound in red morocco, gilt floral design to borders of covers and to spine, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, all edges red (rubbing, very slight wear and slight worming to spine, but binding very good).

IT\ICCU\TO0E\027669. OCLC shows copies outside Italy in NYPL, Dayton, and Vassar.