Ornament.- Albertolli (Giocondo) Alcune Decorazioni di Nobili Sale ed Altri Ornamenti, bound with Ornamenti Diversi, engraved plates, Milan, 1787.
Ornament.- Albertolli (Giocondo) Alcune Decorazioni di Nobili Sale ed Altri Ornamenti, engraved throughout with title, dedication, and 23 plates by Mercoli and Andrea de Bernardis after Albertolli, 1787; Ornamenti Diversi, engraved title and dedication, letterpress sheet to the readers, 24 engraved plates by Giacomo Mercoli after Albertolli on 22 sheets, [1782], together 2 works in 1 vol., engraved titles, dedications & letterpress sheet all bound before plates, light foxing, mostly marginal, upper hinge broken, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, spine defective at head, [Berlin Kat. 595, calls for 22 plates in first work], large folio, [Milan]
⁂ Handsome designs for candelabra, girandole, mirrors, furniture, friezes, ceilings etc., mostly in neoclassical style, and unusually juxtaposing stylized and naturalistic ornament.
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Ornament.- Albertolli (Giocondo) Alcune Decorazioni di Nobili Sale ed Altri Ornamenti, engraved throughout with title, dedication, and 23 plates by Mercoli and Andrea de Bernardis after Albertolli, 1787; Ornamenti Diversi, engraved title and dedication, letterpress sheet to the readers, 24 engraved plates by Giacomo Mercoli after Albertolli on 22 sheets, [1782], together 2 works in 1 vol., engraved titles, dedications & letterpress sheet all bound before plates, light foxing, mostly marginal, upper hinge broken, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, spine defective at head, [Berlin Kat. 595, calls for 22 plates in first work], large folio, [Milan]
⁂ Handsome designs for candelabra, girandole, mirrors, furniture, friezes, ceilings etc., mostly in neoclassical style, and unusually juxtaposing stylized and naturalistic ornament.