Scelta di lettere familiari
Subtitle: fatta per uso degli studiosi di lingua italiana
By: da Giuseppe Baretti, Segretario per la Corrispondenza Straniera della Reale Britannica Accademia. In due volumi
Contributors: Nourse, J. (John), -1780, publisher; Sargent, Rosamond, former owner, autographer; Wilberforce, Octavia, 1888-1963, former owner
Publisher: Da Giovanni Nourse Librajo di Sua Maesta
Published: 1779
Place of publication: Londra
Language: ita
Subjects: Italian letters; Early works to 1800
Notes: Pagination: Vol. 1: 12 unnumbered pages, 304 pages; vol. 2: 4 unnumbered pages, 311 pages, 1 unnumbered page

"Nourse invited him to compile an anthology of Italian letters as a language text for students of Italian. Not satisfied with those written by earlier Italian writers, Baretti chose instead to resort to letters that he himself had previously sent, or pretended to have sent, to friends and acquaintances."--Oxford dictionary of national biography

Rare Book copy: Contemporary full speckled calf binding, gilt-tooled border on all boards, spines tooled in gilt, three of original four leather labels wanting .

Rare Book copy: Rosamond Sargent's copy, with her autograph, October 1797.

Rare Book copy: From the library of Lavington Hall in Sussex, England (which passed from the Sargent family to the the descendants of William Wilberforce in 1836, with its bookplate.

Rare Book copy: Dr. Octavia Margaret Wilberforce's copy, with the Wilberforce Library Baksettown bookplate.

English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), N21454