Carlo Porta - Opere complete in dialetto milanese - 1865

Elegant full parchment hardcover binding with a later binding, rich floral ornaments and fillets of eighteenth-century taste on the plates; gold title and friezes on the spine. The cover is preserved inside, spine included. VIII, 561(3) numbered pages. Illustrated edition with 14 tipped-in woodcuts and printed on a sepia background, designed by Fiorentini and Riccardi, engraved by Baldi; about 130 vignettes, interspersed in the text, by Gonin, Riccardi, Sacchi and others. Many drop caps, head- and tailpieces. For the first time the sixteen "Beroldinghiani" sonnets against the Romantics are published. In excellent condition, embellished with the elegant binding.