Giovanni Battista Pasquali

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Giovanni Battista Pasquali was a leading printer in 18th-century Venice, supported by the British consul Joseph Smith (1682–1770), a patron and collector.[1] Pasquali was a scholar himself, who published his own essays as well as finely printed, unpretentious editions for a scholarly readership.[2] He signed the Latin preface to his printed catalogue of Smith's distinguished library, Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu Catalogus librorum d. Josephi Smithii (Venice:Pasquali, 1755). Pasquali's peers in the revival of fine printing among the presses of Venice were the editor and connoisseur and the political writer and publisher Antonio Zatta.

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  1. ^ Frances Vivian, Il Console Smith, mercante e collezionista, passim
  2. ^ Anne Palms Chalmers, "Venetian Book Design in the Eighteenth Century" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 29.5 (January 1971:226-235) p. 227.
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