Falda (Giovanni Battista). Il Terzo Libro delNovo Teatro delle Chiese di Roma..., [1667-1669]

Falda (Giovanni Battista ). Il Terzo Libro del'Novo Teatro delle Chiese di Roma..., 1st edition, Rome: Giacomo de'Rossi, [1667-1669], engraved throughout with title, pictorial dedication and 50 plates (unnumbered), title lightly soiled & stained and with contemporary pen & ink sketch of military encampment to verso (slightly showing through to recto), occasional spotting and dust-soiling to plates, one dampstained to lower margin and another torn to lower outer blank corner and repaired, paste-paper endpapers, upper pastedown with attached business card of Geo. Jackson & Sons of 49 Rathbone Place, London, contemporary half diced calf, worn, spine defective with loss and with number applied in white & remnants of paper labels, upper board detached & lower joint split, worn, oblong folio (Qty: 1) NOTES Fowler 116. The third volume of Il Nuovo Teatro delle Fabriche, et Edifici, in Prospettiva di Roma Moderna..., normally found with only 38 plates. Included are several plates of church interiors, possibly from another volume or work by Falda and Rossi. The London firm of George Jackson, founded probably in the 1760s by Thomas Jackson, was the pre-eminent supplier of decorative plasterwork in Britain through most of the 19th and 20th centuries. Its commissions included major public buildings such as Buckingham Palace and the Royal Pavilion, Brighton.