Pietro Metastasio

[Volume three, Piacenza: nelle Stampe Regio-Ducali di Luigi Bernardo Salvoni, 1751]. In-4° (240x185 mm). [8], 492 p., with 4 etchings and engravings by Pietro Perfetti based on drawings by Giovanni Battista Permoli. The frontispiece and the portrait of Donna Anna Pallavicini on the frontispiece are missing. Beautiful margined edition with text in frames, drop caps and woodcut finials. Full parchment binding with gold title on spine, green cuts, slight defects. Interior with signs of use, slight foxing and stains, tear on the p. of the Dedication