Bignotti, Elogio sacro del beato Amedeo IX, Turin, 1823, green morocco armorial gilt

BIGNOTTI, VINCENZO

Elogio sacro del Beato Amedeo IX duca di Savoia. Turin: Giuseppe Favale, 1823

4to (283 x 210mm.), large paper copy, contemporary straight-grained green morocco tooled in gilt and blind with crowned monogram CM and arms of Carlo Alberto (1798-1849), king of Sardinia on lower cover, gilt edges

A French-style binding from the workshop of the royal archives in Turin (Bottega dei Regi Archivi; see Malaguzzi, De libris compactis, 2013, plate 110). ICCU lists just two copies of this work, both in Turin.

PROVENANCE:

Ferdinando di Savoia, duke of Genoa, bookplate