Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Smith, Joseph, 1674-1770
Title:
Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu, Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli : per cognomina authorum dispositus.
Alternate Title(s):
Bibliotheca Smithiana
Published / Created:
Venetiis : Typis Jo. Baptistae Pasquali, MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:
[8], xliii, [1], DXIX [i.e. DXVII], [1], CCCXLVIII [i.e. CCCLII], [4] p. ; 25 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Z997 .S65 1755 Copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Z997 .S65 1755 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Z997 .S65 1755 Copy 3
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Catalog compiled by Giovanni Battista Pasquali.

The critical notes are by Giovanni degli Agostini and Girolamo Zanetti. Cf. Pref.

Signatures: [*]⁴, **a-**l², A-Z, Aa-Yy⁴, Zz⁴-1, Aaa-Ttt, a-z, aa-oo⁴, pp⁶, qq-xx⁴.

Numbers CCCIII-CCCVI repeated in the final group of paging.

Title page printed in red and black; with an engraved title page vignette.

"Praefationes et epistolae voluminibus editis appositae, ab incunabulis typographiae ante annum MCCCCC": p. [LXVII]-CCCXLVIII (6th sequence).

Includes index.

BAC: British Art Center has three copies. Copy 1 is bound in later red quarter morocco and marbled boards.

BAC: British Art Center copy 2 bound in gilt-tooled vellum.

BAC: British Art Center copy 3 bound in gilt-tooled vellum. Armorial bookplate: John Murray [the English diplomat, ca. 1714-1775]. With notes in pen and ink on the front endpapers concerning the present work.

Catalog of the library of Joseph Smith (1674-1770), which he collected while consul at Venice. The collection was purchased by George III in 1765 for £10,000 and now forms part of the King's Library at the British Museum.
Subject Terms:
Smith, Joseph, 1674–1770 -- Library -- Catalogs. | British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books. King's Library. | Rare books -- Italy -- Bibliography -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800. | Incunabula -- Italy -- Bibliography -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800. | Private libraries -- Italy -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800. | Murray, John, ca. 1714–1775 -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Woodcuts -- 1755. | Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Contributors:
Pasquali, Giovanni Battista, comp. | Agostini, Giovanni degli, 1701–1755. | Zanetti, Girolamo Francesco, 1713–1782.