MARC Record from University of Toronto

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100 1 $aCumberland, George,$d1754-1848.
245 10 $aRecollections of Mantua$h[manuscript] :$bmade during a short stay there in 1788 chiefly relating to the then remaining works of Julio Romano his house &c. /$cby George Cumberland.
260 $c[1818?].
300 $a66 [i.e. 132] p., bound :$bill. ;$c27 cm.
500 $a"Accettisi quel che io posso, porche no posso quel che vorrei vasari."
500 $aHolograph.
500 $a"Manuscript the property of Mr. Geo Cumberland of Bristol"--1st fly-leaf.
500 $aBound in 3/4 reddish-brown morocco, blind-stamped and gilt without letters, over brown marbled boards, the edges marbled blue.
500 $aPaper has watermark: RYE MILL 1818.
500 $aNumbered 1-66 in pencil at the top right corners of the rectos, though some of the numbers are trimmed off partly or entirely.
500 $aVersos of p. 14 on are blank except for additions and corrections.
500 $aEngravings from other works are pasted on rectos of leaves 56 and 67.
500 $aThe sketches for the "Recollections of Mantua" were made "about the year 1786" (according to the text) or "in 1788" (according to the title-page), and the present draft, probably the only one, was presumably made in or soon after the watermark year of 1818. Cf. Bentley.
500 $aIncludes a translation of Romano's life from Giorgio Vasari's Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, et architettori.
510 4 $aBentley, G.E. Bibliography of George Cumberland,$cp. 102-104.
541 $cGift to Victoria University Library.$aBentley, G.E., Jr.$d2005/10/01.
600 10 $aRomano, Giulio,$d1499-1546.
610 20 $aPalazzo del Te (Mantua, Italy)
650 0 $aArchitecture, Renaissance$zItaly$zMantua
650 0 $aArt, Renaissance$zItaly$zMantua
700 12 $aVasari, Giorgio,$d1511-1574.$tVite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori.$lEnglish
830 0 $aBlake ;$vno. 998
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