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Carceri d’invenzione di G. Battista Piranesi Archit. Vene.
Raccolta
Fourth edition, first Paris edition
16 plates
Gift of Ramsay Traquair (1874-1952), MacDonald Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, McGill University (1914-1938).
Etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi printed in Paris between 1800 and 1809. Sixteen plates numbered I-XVI, with the title plate first used in the second edition of 1761 and the two plates added to the second edition, Pl. II “The Man on a Rack,” and plate V, “The Lion-Bas Reliefs” as well as plate XVI, the reworked “Pier with Chains.” All plates with Roman numerals added in the second editions, numbered I-XVI, including the title plate.
Sources:
Publication and Exhibition of this work and archival sources in the Rare Books and Special Collections Division: Letter of B.T. Batsford, 94 High Holborn, London, to Ramsay Traquair, April 23, 1913; “Durer to Daumier,” 1913, pp. 44-48, no. 36 (Title Plate) and no. 38 (Smoking Fire, no. 36, ill. p. 45, and no. 38, ill. p. 47.