MITELLI, GIUSEPPE. Alfabeto in Sogno. Esemplare per Disegnare. [25] leaves, comprising engraved pictorial title, dedication leaf, and 23 plates, on laid paper watermarked with monogram TB in circle with trefoil at top. Folio, 403x277 mm, modern vellum boards panelled in blind, covers slightly warped; minor worming in gutters, partly repaired, not affecting images. [Bologna], 1683 [i. e., circa 1700?]
Later printing of Mitelli's baroque dream alphabet, in which the 23 Latin letters are depicted anthropomorphically, surrounded by a variety of occasionally bizarre embellishments intended as drawing models. Bonacini 1196; Berlin 5289.
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