METASTASIO (Pietro); — Opere Scelte dell' Abate Metastasio. Rivedute da Leonardon Nardini, ad uso deglie Studiosi della Lingua Italiana.

Londra: Presso A. Dulau & Co. Soho-Square..., [no date] [1806] 2 volumes. 12mo, 155 x 92 mms., pp. [iv], 284; [iv], 282 [283 index, 284 adverts], including half-title in each volume, contemporary mottled calf, spines richly gilt, black leather labels; extremities worm, one panel spine of volume 2 wormed, spines a bit rubbed, but a good to very good set with the armorial bookplate of Lady Frances Bentinck on the front paste-d0wn end-paper of each volume, with a note in pencil on the verso of the first blank end-paper in volume 1. This school text was first published in 1796 in two different issues, one with a portrait. I can't tell if a portrait is called for in this 1806 reprint, but OCLC doesn't mention one. The Critical Review gave a one-sentence notice: \"This edition of the works of Metastasio has considerable merit for the care and attention which have been bestowed on it.\" This 1806 edition by Nardi is a redaction of the 1796 text, and his text appears here for the first time. The work was reprinted in 1808, with The Monthlyk Review taking notice of it: \"With the first edition of this selection, the readers of Italian poetry have been for some years familiarly acquainted; and a second is now presented to them, in which we believe no material difference occuers: The pieces, which are culled with judgment, and printed with correctness, form and excellent and agreeable introduction to the study of Italian poetry.\"