Opere drammatiche e componimenti poetici
A collected edition of the dramatic works and poems of Pietro Metastasio, published in Milan in 1748 by Giuseppe Cairoli for a readership of opera and theatre enthusiasts. The pictures are decorative typographic ornaments: a looping scrolled border, a central running band of foliate scrolls with a rectangular label, and a shield with a crest and flanking fleur-like finials, all in dark ink, offering designers period scroll and cartouche motifs for ornamental frames.
