Item 264Raccolta di Varie Favole delineate, ed incise in Rame da Giorgio Fossati architetto &c.
Collection of detailed prints illustrating fables on fine paper. Giorgio Fossati (1706-1778) was an architect and printmaker whose training shows here in his exceptional rendering of both realistic animals and detailed representations of baroque architecture. Rarely found complete.
Venezia [i.e. Venice]: Carlo Pecora, 1744. 6 volumes bound in 2. Illustrated with 216 engraved plates in several colors,including black, sanguine, gray, green, and bistre; additional woodcutillustrations in text. Period calf. 6 volumes bound in 2. Illustrated with 216 engraved plates in several colors,including black, sanguine, gray, green, and bistre; additional woodcutillustrations in text.