Poesie del Signor Abate Pietro Metastasio. Giusta le correzioni fatte dall' Autore nee' Edizione di Parigi, coll' aggiunta dell Nitteti, e del Sogno, ultimamente date all luce deal medesimo.
Turin: Stamperia Reale 1757. Later printing. Nine vols. (of an eventual ten). 8vo., pp. [ff 2] + [12] + [ii]-ccxiv + [ff 1] + [7]-304; [ff 2] + [8]-440; [ff 2] + [6]-438 + [1]; [ff 2] + [6]-470 + [1]; [ff 2] + [9]-461 + [1]; [ff 1] + [8]-469 + [1]; [ff 1] + 431 + [1]; [ff 1] + 12]-446 + [1]; [ff 1] + [10]-422 + [1]; uniformly bound in contemporary three quarter vellum and parchment boards; contemporary handwritten titles and later handwritten call numbers to spines; boards lightly spotted and soiled, especially at spines; card pocket to front pastedown at first and ninth volumes; pockets roughly removed from other volumes at front pastedown; later ownership inscriptions to each volume; library stamps to rectos of each engraved title leaf; later embossed stamps and pencil annotations to letterpress title leaves; bookplate at verso of title leaf to all volumes; card pockets and electronic tags to rear pastedowns; text leaves clean. Properly deaccessioned. Good. Vellum. [21183]
This title was first issued in Paris in 1755. Here published in Turin in 1757 in nine volumes. Volume 10 was published later, in 1768, and is often missing from the set when offered.
"Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio( 3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti." (wikipedia)
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