Pistrucci (Filippo) Iconologia ovvero Immagini di Tutte le Cose Principali, 2 vol., first edition, half-title and title to vol. 1 only, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 240 hand-coloured plates bound in vol. 2, text in French and Italian, very faint spotting to fore-edges, later cloth-backed boards, vol. 2 upper joint beginning to split but holding firm, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, Milan, 1819.

⁂ Pistrucci (1782-1859) was an artist, writer and Risorgimento patriot who spent part of his career teaching in England. In this publication, he sought to create a more modern reference work for artists and sculptors with the use of colour, which he believed was a fundamental component to images' meaning.