Uniform title
Dei delitti e delle pene., German, (DLC)n 2016015117
Title
Des Herren Marquis von Beccaria unsterbliches Werk von Verbrechen und Strafen ... / auf das neue selbst aus dem Italiänischen übersezet mit durchgängigen Anmerkungen des Ordinarius zu Leipzig Herren Hofrath Hommels.
Imprint
Breslau : Bey Johann Friedrich Korn, dem ältern, 1778.
Description
LVI, 279 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (engraving) ; 20 cm (octavo)
Note
Signatures: pi¹ a-c⁸ d⁴ A-R⁸ S⁴.
Errata: p. [280].
Head- and tailpieces.
Translated by Philipp Jakob Flathe. Cf. Vorrede, p. XIV.
The engraved frontispiece, signed "Rasmoesler [?] f.," depicts a seated Justice abhorring severed heads held up by the executioner, while various implements have been cast aside, spade, saw, hammer, shackles, even the scales of justice.
Local Note
Binding: contemporary vellum boards, gold-tooled and -stamped on back, with red page-edges and ribbon.
Language Note
Translation of Dei delitti e delle pene.
Ownership
Provenance: Hans Wolff (inscription); another, deleted inscription dated "16 November [?] 1889."
Location
RARE
Call Number
K5103 .B4315 1778
Language
German
