Four headpieces and 1 tailpiece in text

Library's copy includes as frontispiece an etching by Piranesi depicting an arrangement of four artist's implements, together with a snake swallowing its tail. Stamp on verso effaced

Binding: mottled sheep over pasteboard. Spine gold tooled with 4 fleurons; remains of red leather label. Edges red

2 preliminary leaves, 28 pages, 8 plates (1 folded) ; 26 cm

Dedicatory leaf and t.p. engr. and illustrated

In this work Piranesi justifies why he had cancelled the dedications to the Irish Lord Charlemont, which he had inserted in the engraved title pages of the four vols. of the original ed. of his Antichità Romane

With: Rome (City) Museo capitalino. ... sia descrizione delle statue, busti, bassirilieve ... (Roma, 1750)

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