Lettere di givstificazione scritte a Milord Charlemont e a' di lvi agenti di Roma dal signor Piranesi, socio della Real Società degli Antiquari di Londra, intorno la dedica della sua opera delle antichità Rom[ane], fatta allo stesso signore ed vltimamente soppressa
Contributors: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778; Hope, John, 1737-1784, dedicatee; Cowdray, Weetman Pearson, Viscount, 1856-1927, former owner
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1758
Place of publication: In Roma
Language: ita
Subjects: Art patronage; Correspondence; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Lettere di giustificazione scritte a Milord Charlemont e a' di lui agenti di Roma dal signor Piranesi
Notes: Date of publication from Early printed books 1478-1840.

Dedicatory plate and t.p. included in extent.

Four headpieces and 1 tailpiece in text.

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.

Plates I-IV based on frontispiece designs for Le antichità romane.

Avery Classics copy: Second? of the earliest states of t.-p., with misquotation from Pliny in compartment at upper left. Cf. Early printed books.

Avery Classics copy: Dedicated to Giovanni [i.e. John] Hope; dedication in manuscript.

Avery Classics copy: Bookplate of Sir Weetman Dickinson Pearson, Viscount Cowdray of Cowdray, Paddockhurst.

Avery Classics copy: [Auction?] catalog entry for works by Piranesi pasted on front pastedown.

Avery Classics copy: Mottled calf, gold-stamped.

Early printed books 1478-1840, 2561