Piranesi, Giovanni Battista.

Folio (548 x 410mm.), etched title incorporating a dedication to Robert Adam, frontispiece, 2 etched and engraved head-pieces (to the Latin and Italian dedications to Robert Adam), 2 initials, 2 tail-pieces, and 48 plates (numbered I-XXXXVIII), of which 2 double-page and 2 folding (plates V-X joined to form a large folding plan of the Campus Martius), text in Latin and Italian, contemporary diced calf, flat spine gilt, [BAL RIBA 2551], some spotting and dust-soiling, some tears along folds of the large plan, rebacked, small library label taped to spine, binding rubbed, extremities a little worn

Strathallan, armorial bookplate

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