Gemme d’Arti Italiane [Volume 13]

Milan, Venice & Verona: P. Ripamenti Carpano, 1860. Volume 13 only. Engraved title and 9 engraved plates after contemporary Italian painters. xxxix, [i], 68, xv, [iii] pp. 4to. Bound in the publisher’s “chocolate box” style of white paper boards elaborately embossed and chromolithographed, front cover with a central die-cut oval revealing a hand-colored engraving of a woman pulling a necklace from a jewellery box, her dress embellished with small jewels, rear cover with a central embossed image of a floral boquet, some foxing throughout, in a custom cardboard chemise. Volume 13 only. Engraved title and 9 engraved plates after contemporary Italian painters. xxxix, [i], 68, xv, [iii] pp. 4to. Volume 13 of this Italian art periodical, in a beautiful “chocolate box” style binding of embossed and chromolithographed paper boards.