Alciati (Andrea) Emblemata cum commentariis amplissimis, engraved frontispiece, woodcut Jesuitical device on title, ornaments and 212 emblems in text, large printer’s device on colophon, lacking last blank, double column, title holed and chipped, occasional spotting and thumbing, water staining throughout, light browning to final leaves, a couple of burn holes, occasional tearing (affecting a few letters to Pp4 & Rr5), one leaf repaired, marginal annotations to T7 & Gg7 in two early hands, various ex libris and ownership notes at front, including P. S. Mattei Karm, P. Strambali, & Antonio Rubiero Carmelitano, later half vellum over boards, ink title to spine, a little worm-holed, [Brunet I,147; Landwehr 103; Praz p. 252], 4to, Pietro Paolo Tozzi Padua, 1621. *** The first edition to contain 212 emblems, all with accompanying woodcuts. Edited by Joannes Thuilius, professor in Freiburg, who also combined the commentaries by Mignault, Sanchez and Pignorius. 211 of the woodcut emblems are from the 1618 edition, emblem 80 is new and known as the 'offensive' emblem (Landwehr Romanic, 99), often removed from copies of this edition.
Alciati (Andrea) Emblemata cum commentariis amplissimis, engraved frontispiece, woodcut Jesuitical device on title, ornaments and 212 emblems in text, large printer’s device on colophon, lacking last blank, double column, title holed and chipped, occasional spotting and thumbing, water staining throughout, light browning to final leaves, a couple of burn holes, occasional tearing (affecting a few letters to Pp4 & Rr5), one leaf repaired, marginal annotations to T7 & Gg7 in two early hands, various ex libris and ownership notes at front, including P. S. Mattei Karm, P. Strambali, & Antonio Rubiero Carmelitano, later half vellum over boards, ink title to spine, a little worm-holed, [Brunet I,147; Landwehr 103; Praz p. 252], 4to, Pietro Paolo Tozzi Padua, 1621. *** The first edition to contain 212 emblems, all with accompanying woodcuts. Edited by Joannes Thuilius, professor in Freiburg, who also combined the commentaries by Mignault, Sanchez and Pignorius. 211 of the woodcut emblems are from the 1618 edition, emblem 80 is new and known as the 'offensive' emblem (Landwehr Romanic, 99), often removed from copies of this edition.
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