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Rome, Puccinelli Typography, 1844. In 2 ° oblong (715 x 528 mm). Title page contained in a typographic frame, dedication card to Maria Cristina di Borbone, 8 text cards, and 25 etched plates, each with caption in English and Italian below the engraved part, bottom left of table 15 anagram by Labruzzi, editorial paperback in yellow cardboard with title on the upper plate in a frame of typographic friezes preserved in a modern binding in red Moroccan, on the front plate frame of threads and phytomorphic wheel imprinted in gold, paperback with defects and restorations, beautiful binding of the century . XX in red morocco, with gold-stamped decoration.
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Rare edition dedicated to Maria Cristina di Borbone, based on life drawings by the artist Carlo Labruzzi (1748- 1817). The archaeologist and amateur painter Sir Richard Colt Hoare asked Labruzzi to walk together on the Via Appia, in the direction of Brindisi, described by Horace in satire V of the first book. Labruzzi would have documented the journey with drawings. On October 31, 1789, Hoare and Labruzzi began the journey; but due to bad weather when they arrived in Benevento also due to the poor health of the designer they were forced to retire to Naples and return to Rome. Labruzzi made a number of sketches from life, which he then used as notes for the subsequent ink drawings, watercolored in sepia, that Hoare had commissioned him. & Nbsp; Of the project, commissioned by Hoare, 24 plates were engraved, collected in two booklets of 12 sheets each, which were published in Rome in 1794, with the title Via Appia illustrata ab Urbe Roma ad Capuam . In the nineteenth century various collections of engravings were printed, taken from drawings by Labruzzi: in 1810 a series was printed by Piero Parboni and Antonio Poggioli, with the title Le antichità d'Albano delineate in its leftovers by C. Labruzzi and engraved by P. Parboni and A. Poggioli; in 1844 Agostino Rem-Picci printed another series, entitled Monuments and ruins that are seen along the sides of the first two miles of the Via Appia.
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