The prisons =
Subtitle: [Le carceri] : the complete first and second states
By: Giovanni Battista Piranesi ; introduction by Philip Hofer ; with a new preface by John Howe.
Contributors: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Edition: Dover ed.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Mineola, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780486475516
Subjects: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, -- 1720-1778
Other titles: Carceri
Notes: Rev. ed. of: The prisons (Le carceri). 1973.

Originally published: Invenzioni capric di carceri. Rome, ca. 1745-1761.

This work, first published in 1973 and reissued in 2010, reproduces in their entirety--at 60 per cent of original size--the first and second states of Invenzioni Capric di Carceri by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The first state, containing 14 etchings, was originally published in Rome, circa 1745. The second, containing 16 etchings, was originally issued in 1761.