The Long Eighteenth Century from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Milano: co' tipi di Luigi Mussi, 1811. Limited ed. Folio (460 x 310 mm); LIII, [I], 157, [3] pages. Edition limited to 150 copies, each numbered in manuscript, with a description of the paper stock, and signed by the typographer Luigi Mussi. Green cloth backstrip over green-and-black marbled paper over pasteboard. Paper label on spine titled… Read more about this item

London: printed for D. Midwinter, [etc., including 16 additional firms], 1738. The second edition, corrected and amended; with some additions. Text, very good; boards, acceptable. Two volumes folio (420 x 280 mm), continuously signed. Titlepages in red and black. Folded engraved frontispiece and 21 engraved plates, eight of them folding. In contemporary speckled calf over… Read more about this item

Milano: Tipografia Mussi, 1810. First edition. Very Good. Octavo (23 cm); 142, [2] pages. Bound in nineteenth-century green straight-grain morocco, ruled in gilt on both boards within a surround of gilt-tooled scallop shells; spine highly decorated in gilt with delicate interlocking circles set off by Greek key horizontal borders. GIlt turn-ins; marbled endleaves. Binder's ticket of Lodigliani. All… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez Nicholas Gosselin, 1715. Seventh edition. Good +. 16mo (14 cm); 136, 259 pages, engraved frontispiece and 9 engraved plates. In full calf, spine decorated in gilt. Edges and extremities worn, but binding is strong and entire. Ownership inscription on flyleaf dated 1897, another later one on the verso of the flyleaf. Very… Read more about this item

La Haye: Pierre Paupie, 1741. Nouvelle édition, augmentée de LXXX nouvelles lettres..... Good. Six volumes 12mo (16 cm). Title pages in red and black. Vignettes on title pages. Frontispiece portrait and full-page engraved allegory of Truth lifting the veil that conceals the Afterlife. Bound in full mottled calf, spines in six compartments decorated with… Read more about this item

Parma: Co' tipi Bodoniani (Bodoni), 1802. First edition. Very Good. Octavo (23 cm); [6], XV, [1 blank] pages, with additional leaf inserted before the title page, a unique printed page by Bodoni dedicating this copy of the book to Eugène de Beauharnais(1781-1824), Napoleon's stepson, Viceroy of Italy, Prince of Venice. In contemporary red straight-grain 1/4 morocco over… Read more about this item

London: J.F. and C. Rivington, etc., 1785. The sixth edition. Very Good. 2 volumes quarto (29 cm). Portrait, half title present in volume 1. Original calf boards, rebacked, corners rebuilt, end leaves renewed. Spines brightly gilt. A firm, bright, unblemished copy in restored binding. Courtney & Smith, p. 57. First quarto edition, and the first… Read more about this item

London: J. Nourse, etc., 1775. Third edition. Very Good in utility binding.. Octavo (22 cm); [10], xxvi, 412 pages, and 6 folding plates. In quarter leather over artless marbled boards, leather title labels. Joints tender (upper joint cracked but holding). Boards faded and discolored. Front free end leaf loose but present. Engraved armorial… Read more about this item

Rovigo: Miazzi, 1798. Original edition. Good. Quarto (23 cm); [4], 12 pages (last three blank). In block-printed polychrome wraps. Wraps detached from text. Wraps stained a bit along top edge and fore-edge, with old paper repair on lower wrap. An unattributed cantata in four voices (The Genius of Peace, the Genius of War, the… Read more about this item

Lucca: Dalla tipografia Bertini, 1826. Original edition. Fine. Octavo (22 cm), xiv, [1 blank] pages. Printed on wove paper with Bodoni-style type. In stiff plain paste-paper boards. Remarkable fresh and fine. A collection of epithalamia for the wedding of Francesca Cosi del Vollia to the noted engraver Antonio Viviani in the city of Lucca. … Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1774. First edition. 2 volumes quarto (30 cm); Engraved frontispiece portrait in volume I. [4], vii, [1, blank], 568; [4], 606, [1, errata], [1, blank] pages. Half titles present. In contemporary polished tan calf, expertly rebacked in period style. Bookplate of Tatton Park in both volumes (the country estate of the Egerton… Read more about this item

Milano: Luigi Mussi, 1812. Edition limited to 50 copies.. Very Good+. Milano: Luigi Mussi, 1812. Very Good+. Folio (47 cm); xv, 206, [2 blank] pages. Contemporary green cloth with green polished morocco backstrip titled and decorated in gilt. Vellum tips. Margins are remarkably wide. Some wear at spine ends and extremities. Negligible traces of finger-smudges here and there.… Read more about this item

London: M. Clark for Samuel Mearne, 1680. Very Good. Octavo (16cm); three titles each with title page, paginated consecutively, [8], 222, [14], 28, [12], 111, [3] pages, signed continuously A-Cc. Lacks blank leaf Cc4. Re-backed in full leather in period style with older, possibly contemporary boards. Small surface chip on upper board. Pages… Read more about this item

Bassano del Grappa: Remondini, 1795. Good. 12mo (18 cm); [4], xli, [3], 168 pages, including engraved frontispiece and engraved title page. Untrimmed copy in publisher's block-printed decorated wraps, paper title label on spine. Wrapper peeling at spine ends. Early owner's ink stamp on title page. References: De Backer & Sommervogel, VI, 1911, #32;… Read more about this item

Belluno: per Simone Tissi, 1791. Original edition. Quarto (20 cm); CXIX, [1] pages. In original block-printed polychorme wraps by Remondini. Collection of poems, dramatic narratives, and orations by various authors to honor the end of Alessandro Contarini's two-year term as "podestà" or civilian leader of Belluno under the Republic of Venice. Contarini came from one of the founding… Read more about this item

Modena: Presso la Società Tipografica, 1790. Original edition. Very Good. Octavo (22 cm); 117, [1] pages, and four full page engraved plates hors texte by Antonio Rosaspina. Half-page vignettes by the same artist close each of the four cantos. Engraved roundel on title page. LACKS final blank leaf G/12. In plain paper covers attached… Read more about this item

Verona: Nella stamperia Giuliari, 1801. First edition. Good. Octavo (20 cm); 127, [2], 39 pages, and engraved frontispiece portrait. Engraved publisher's device on title page. Engraved head-pieces and tail-pieces in text. In original green, pink, and black woodblock printed wraps with paper title label on spine. Lower portion of original spine perished. Original… Read more about this item

Parma: nella Stamperia Reale, 1779. Original edition. Very Good. Quarto (23cm); [4], xii, 296 pages. Engraved portrait frontispiece, headpieces and ornaments by Domenico Cagnoni. Text within typographic borders. In old marbled paste-paper titled in manuscript on spine. Edges stained red and blue to match covers. Bookplate of the distinguished publisher Mario Spagnol… Read more about this item

London , 1763. Sixth edition, the first to include the Giudizio d'Amore.. Fine. Octavo (17 cm); 104 pages. Typographical vignette on title page, and typographical headpiece and initial on A4. In three-color woodblock-printed decorated wraps, A wide-margined, largely unblemished copy. Reference: Melzi, Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime, I, 243. One of the defining voices of… Read more about this item

Bologna: Stamperia di S. Tommaso d'Aquino, 1785. Original edition. Very Good. Octavo, XVIII, [2] pages. Woodcut vignette (profile of a woman) on title page. In three-color woodblock printed wraps by Remondini. First printing of a narrative poem by the classicist (and translator of Virgil and Ovid) that circulated in several editions in the late 1780s.