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This is a copy of the first edition of Il parnaso veneziano (1796): a poem in praise of Venice and its poets by the Jesuit polymath Saverio Bettinelli (1718–1808), with a long essay ‘Della cultura della poesia presso li veneziani’ by Jacopo Morelli (1745–1819), the great librarian of St Mark’s. It is also a nice […]

As readers of this blog and members of We Love Endpapers know, Simon is always on the lookout for new and unusual decorated papers. Recently, he came across a fantastic example of Italian block-printed endpapers on a little Armenian book…