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<dl><dd>In Library's c. 1 English t.p. and text on recto of pages in v. 3-4</dd>
<dd>Library's c. 1 lacks a plate 21 in v. 2</dd>
<dd>Library's c. 2 consists of loose leaves, now in a portfolio. There are 4 pages from the text of v. 1, 46 pages from the text of v. 2, and 102 plates. The plates do not bear volume numbers. They have been arranged in a single sequence by plate number, with no attempt to group them first by volume. None of the plates are hand colored, none are double-page. Eight of them are printed on pink paper</dd>
<dd>Binding, c. 3: contemporary red goatskin, tooled in gilt (triple fillets along edges of boards, vases etc. in compartments on spine with title in French, diagonal slashes on edges of boards, floral meander on turn-ins). Doublures of blue watered silk. The page edges gilt. Blue satin page markers</dd>
<dd>Colored title in English and French on facing pages. English reads: Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton .... Running title in French, v. 1-2: Recueil d'antiquités etrusques, grecques, et romaines</dd>
<dd>Text in French and English, v. 1-2. Vol. 3-4 only t.p.'s and preliminary discourse in English</dd>
<dd>Preface, v. 1, signed: D'Hancarville</dd>
<dd>Colophon, v. 1: Imprimé a Naples par François Morelli</dd>
<dd>Included in plate count of 130 in each vol. are oversize initials, engravings in text, vignettes (nearly all in bistre in v. 4, with a few in black, brown and red); t.p.'s, dedicatory and laudatory preliminary pages. In each vol. there are over 100 leaves of plates, some folded, those showing vase paintings in color. Only some of the plates in v. 1 are titled or described, chiefly in v. 2. Hancarville credits G. Bracci, one of the principal illustrators, with the innovative scale system showing size and shape of vases</dd>
<dd>Engravings by A. Cardon, C. Nolli, C. Pignatari, Dufrenoi after G. Bracci, F. de Grado, E. and R. Beaulieu, G.B. Tierce, A. Lamberti</dd>
<dd>Text in v. 1: Of the origins of the Etruscans and of their letters -- v. 2: Preliminary discourse upon painting, etc.; Of the general uses the ancients made of their vases; Where, when by whom they were made; How they are found; Of the manner of painting them -- v. 3-4: Histoire de la sculture et de la statuaire des Grecs</dd>
<dd>Includes bibliographical references, and errata</dd>
<dd>Sloan candidate</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803; Vases, Etruscan; Vases, Greco-Roman; Vases, Greek; Vase-painting; Sculpture, Greek; Classical antiquities</div>
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<dl><dd>Hancarville, Pierre d', 1719-1805</dd>
<dd>Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803</dd>
<dd>Bracci, Giuseppe</dd></dl></div>
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