348. Cameos.- Liberotti Impronte, 18 vol., 660 plaster cameos mounted in double-sided boxes opening as books, contents in manuscript on pastedowns, contemporary half vellum, spines gilt with morocco labels, slightly rubbed, 8vo, [?Rome], [c.1820].
est. £1000 – £1500
A souvenir of the Grand Tour, depicting famous sculptures and works of art in relief as miniature plaster casts, from Egyptian carvings through classical sculpture to the work of the neoclassicists Canova and Thorvaldsen.