Alphabet.- Giovanardi (Lampridio) [Alfabeto Figurato], engraved broadside, charming alphabet with the letters formed of Pierrot-style figures in a variety of acrobatic positions (occasionally with props, including a broom, ladder, and hunting-horn), water-stained, very small split to lower margin, lightly spotted and browned, some creasing, 227 x 331mm., [?Reggio Emilia], [c.1860].
⁂ Rare work (WorldCat recording only two copies (Yale & Newberry)) by this Italian engineer, inventor, engraver, and cabinet maker (1809-1878). He created an inlay technique using wood, mother-of-pearl, gold, silver and marble. With this he produced four highly-regarded round tables, one of which won him a gold medal at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
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