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Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge. Softcover. Good to very good condition. 188/212. Folio (13 3/4 x 11 1/2") 34 (2)pp. Original blue half-cloth over gray board with black framed lettering on paper label of cover, string-ties. Housing text volume, bound in stiff light-blue wrappers and printed paper label, with eighteen etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, signed and numbered in plates. Frontispiece etching. Colophon with signature of Aldois Huxley and hand-numbered. "Piranesi's (b. 1720) famous set of prints, the Prisons, first appeared in Rome about 1745 under the title, "Invenzioni, Capricci all'acqua forte," and were published without the name of the artist... [and were reprinted many times]. For our own period they have immense relevance... the richness of Piranesi's imagination was such that formal qualities of his work allowed him to suggest those tragic dreams that underlie human existence." (Jean Adhemar) Of this limited edition 212 copies were printed. One hundred copies were reserved… Read More