Folio (440x585mm) - One Color plate + 11 (9 sheets) and 38 Original etchings. "Different ornaments, invented, designed and executed by Giocondo Albertolli " (1742-1839) Swiss-Italian architect and decorator. Giocondo Albertolli became famous for the ornamental decorations he executed in the interiors of public and private buildings in Lombardy. It represented the neoclassical style born around 1770, which due to its reaction to the baroque and the rococo was inspired by the rather austere and linear forms of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Later he was a highly regarded teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts, in Milan (better known in the abbreviated form Brera), of which he was a co-founder. In a contemporary binding (missing the spine), paginated in a non-consecutive way. It contains the first part with 11 engravings (dated 1796) on 9 sheets and the second part (dated 1782) with 38 single pages. The book is stained on the top, but the engravings are practically not touched. All in all in good condition
