Quarter calf over marbled boards, 16 x 9 cm, spine with raised bands, gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered label, all margins red, two title-pages (one for each vol.), illustrated with engraved frontispiece by Antonio Baratti after Antonio Balestra; engraved portrait of John Milton by Antonio Baratti, 12 plates, one for each book, after “Piazzetta, Zucchi, Balestra, Tiepolo, and other Venetian artists”, unsigned; plate II signed ‘Antonio Barati scul.’
Title page: IL PARADISO | PERDUTO | POEMA INGLESE | DI GIOVANNI MILTON | TRADOTTO DAL SIG. | PAOLO ROLLI | Con le Annotazioni | DI G. ADDISON | E alcune Osservazioni critiche. | TOMO PRIMO (SECUNDO). | {publisher’s device} | IN PARIGI , MDCCLVIII. | — | A spese di Bartolommeo Occhi. | LIBRAJO VENETO. ||
Collation: *-**12 ***8 (dedication, vita), A-R12 (vol. 1) A-K12 L9 (vol.2); total 365 leaves plus 14 engraved plates, incl. frontispiece and portrait.
Pagination: [i, ii] iii-lxiv 1-407 [408 blank], [2] 3-258; total 730 pages.
Catalogue raisonné: Wickenheiser Collection 688 [LIB-2795.2021]. Though it states 228 pp., which does not seem right. “Scarce. Not in Coleridge”.
Contributors:
Milton, John (British, 1608 – 1674) – author.
Joseph Addison (British, 1672 – 1719) – author / criticism
Paolo Antonio Rolli (Italian, 1687 – 1765) – author / transaltion
Bartolomeo Occhi (Italian, 1730 – 1781) – publisher.
Antonio Baratti (Italian, 1724 – 1787) – engraver
Antonio Balestra (Italian, 1666 – 1740) – artist.
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian,1682/83 – 1754) – artist.
Antonio Zucchi (Italian, 1726 – 1795) – artist.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696 – 1770) – artist.
