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A’ Dilettanti delle Bell’Arti

A Decorated Alphabet Engraved by Giovanni Battista Betti, Florence, 1785

Eleanor Garvey

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PAPERBACK

$10.00 • £8.95 • €9.95

ISBN 9780976492566

Publication Date: 05/31/2005

25 pages

8-1/2 x 10 inches

25 black and white illustrations

Houghton Library Publications

World

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Eleanor Garvey is a former Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts at the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

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