[Rarebooks] FS: Vernazza di Freney's important history of the printers of Sardinia. Torino: 1859

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(PRINTING HISTORY) Vernazza di Freney, Giuseppe, Barone. DIZIONARIO DEI TIPOGRAFI e Dei Principali Correttori ed Intagliatori che Operarono Negli Stati Sardi di Terraferma e Piu Specialmente in Piemonte Sino All'Anno 1821... Torino: Stamperia Reale. 1859. First edition. 4to. (2),328pp. 20th c. half calf, gilt, over marbled boards. Rare.    $600.00 (trade discount allowed)
Though this work remains "a very useful and important dictionary of the printers of Sardinia" (Bigmore & Wyman, p. 47), it was published incomplete at the time of Vernazza's (1745-1822) death, and the last alphabetical entry is "Savoia Raconigi."
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