Series of the engravings from the Zatta edition of Dante’s Collected Works.

Large 4° (300 x 195 mm). [114] engraved plates. Contemporary vellum over cardboards, marbled edges. A very good copy. A few thin wormholes on the last plate with some loss of text, another hole on the blank margin of a leaf with no loss, some scratches on plate xxxi of Inferno.

Provenance: Livio Ambrogio collection.

Album containing the complete series of illustrations from Zatta edition of Dante's collected works, issued in Venice between 1757 and 1758. The plates which illustrate the Zatta edition were also sold separately either bound in a book or as decorative prints arranged two by two with the arguments to each canto printed at the center between the two engravings. In the present copy are clearly visible, although cut right in the middle, the arguments within a woodcut border that were added at the center of the sheet between the two plates to which they refer. These plates, though clearly issued as decorative prints, were instead bound in a volume at the time or slightly later.