LAFRERI, Antonio (1512-1577), publisher]. Collection of 10 print suites by 8 different artists, engraving and etching, various dates between 1535 and 1562, probably assembled and issued by Lafreri. [Rome: c. 1562]. Large 2 o and half broadsheets (414 x 263mm). (Some upper and lower edges and all bottom right corners frayed, mostly marginal staining.) Contemporary binding of two limp vellum sheets overlapping on spine (somewhat shrunk), Lafreri's original blue-paper wrappers separating the suites, each followed by a half-sheet flyleaf watermarked with a flower in an armorial shield and star surmount (a paper stock that recurs in six suites of this collection). Modern cloth fall-down-back box.
LAFRERI, Antonio (1512-1577), publisher]. Collection of 10 print suites by 8 different artists, engraving and etching, various dates between 1535 and 1562, probably assembled and issued by Lafreri. [Rome: c. 1562]. Large 2 o and half broadsheets (414 x 263mm). (Some upper and lower edges and all bottom right corners frayed, mostly marginal staining.) Contemporary binding of two limp vellum sheets overlapping on spine (somewhat shrunk), Lafreri's original blue-paper wrappers separating the suites, each followed by a half-sheet flyleaf watermarked with a flower in an armorial shield and star surmount (a paper stock that recurs in six suites of this collection). Modern cloth fall-down-back box. Provenance : count Nikolaus Pázmány de Panasz 1651 (owner's entry on first title) -- Joseph Switil 1809 (inscription) -- Acquired from Marlborough Rare Books 1980. Giacomo BAROZZI DA VIGNOLA (1507-1573). Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura . [Rome: 1562]. 1-4 8 : 32 numbered plates including architectural title incorporating the artist's portrait, dedications to Pius IV and Cardinal Farnese; 29 full-page engravings of the five architectural orders, printed in pairs on full sheets. FINE EARLY IMPRESSIONS OF THE FIRST EDITION, issued before the addition of 5 plates. One of the most important of all Renaissance architectural works, reprinted countless times and of profound influence on subsequent theory. Fowler 351a; Cicognara 416; Berlin Katalog 2578. Antonio LABACCO (c. 1495-1559). Libro appartenente a l'architettura . Rome: the artist, 1559. 1 4 (architectural title, 3 leaves of letterpress: colophon, papal privileges, preface); 2-4 2 5-6 6 7 2 8 4 9 2 (2 extended with half-sheet) 10 6 (1 letterpress text, 10 blank). 37 numbered leaves: 28 engravings including the extension to the double-page plate on quire 9. Third edition, issue a (of 4). Fowler 166; Berlin Katalog 1839. Master G.A. with the Caltrop and the Monogrammist P.S. Suite of 29 engravings on 15 half-sheets (Lafreri paper, flower watermark), printed on rectos only. Rome: dated 1535-37 (impressions somewhat later). Cornices, capitals and bases of Ionic, Corinthian and composite columns in Rome. Cf. Berlin Katalog 3905. [Enea VICO (c. 1523-1567)]. Suite of 11 engravings on 8 half-sheets, printed on rectos only. [Rome? probably A. Lafreri, c. 1550]. (One leaf remargined.) Lion supporters, acanthus, putti, satyrs. Bartsch 452-3, 457-60, 462-6. ANONYMOUS MASTER. Leviores et (ut videtur) extemporaneae picturae quas grotteschas vulgo vocant . [Rome: c. 1540]. Suite of 16 numbered engravings printed on half-sheets (same paperstock as the Masters G.A. and P.S. series listed above), rectos only. Last 3 plates with 2 images each. (Outer margins of plates 3, 5, 7 and 13 extended, presumably at the moment of binding.) RARE FIRST EDITION, copied in 1541 by Enea Vico These images and even the phrasing of the title evidently inspired Androuet du Cerceau's suite of small grotesques (q.v.) Berlin Katalog 533; Bartsch 468-72, 474-5, 477-8, 480-84, 486-8. [Enea VICO]. Suite of 16 numbered engraved plates. Rome: Antonio Lafreri, 1550-53. Half-sheets, at least three paper stocks, one (w/m flower) shared with the suites by Master G.A. and the anonymous master above. (Outer margins of plates 1, 5 and 11 extended with strips of paper from one of the same stocks.) Antique Roman trophies. Berlin Katalog 540; Guilmard p. 289; Bartsch 434-49. ANONYMOUS MASTER. Suite of 13 numbered engravings printed on 7 half-sheets (Lafreri paper, w/m flower). [Rome: A. Lafreri, c. 1550]. (piece torn from blank margin of pl. 6.) Empty cartouches. Apparently unrecorded. ANONYMOUS MASTER. Suite of 23 numbered etchings on 6 half-sheets (Lafreri paper, w/m flower). [Rome: A. Lafreri, c. 1550]. Grotesque ancient masks found in Rome. Apparently unrecorded. Enea VICO Suite of 14 numbered engraved plates on half-sheets (Lafreri paper). Rome: 1543. FINE IMPRESSIONS. Antique vases. Berlin Katalog 1125. Bartsch 420
LAFRERI, Antonio (1512-1577), publisher]. Collection of 10 print suites by 8 different artists, engraving and etching, various dates between 1535 and 1562, probably assembled and issued by Lafreri. [Rome: c. 1562]. Large 2 o and half broadsheets (414 x 263mm). (Some upper and lower edges and all bottom right corners frayed, mostly marginal staining.) Contemporary binding of two limp vellum sheets overlapping on spine (somewhat shrunk), Lafreri's original blue-paper wrappers separating the suites, each followed by a half-sheet flyleaf watermarked with a flower in an armorial shield and star surmount (a paper stock that recurs in six suites of this collection). Modern cloth fall-down-back box.
LAFRERI, Antonio (1512-1577), publisher]. Collection of 10 print suites by 8 different artists, engraving and etching, various dates between 1535 and 1562, probably assembled and issued by Lafreri. [Rome: c. 1562]. Large 2 o and half broadsheets (414 x 263mm). (Some upper and lower edges and all bottom right corners frayed, mostly marginal staining.) Contemporary binding of two limp vellum sheets overlapping on spine (somewhat shrunk), Lafreri's original blue-paper wrappers separating the suites, each followed by a half-sheet flyleaf watermarked with a flower in an armorial shield and star surmount (a paper stock that recurs in six suites of this collection). Modern cloth fall-down-back box. Provenance : count Nikolaus Pázmány de Panasz 1651 (owner's entry on first title) -- Joseph Switil 1809 (inscription) -- Acquired from Marlborough Rare Books 1980. Giacomo BAROZZI DA VIGNOLA (1507-1573). Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura . [Rome: 1562]. 1-4 8 : 32 numbered plates including architectural title incorporating the artist's portrait, dedications to Pius IV and Cardinal Farnese; 29 full-page engravings of the five architectural orders, printed in pairs on full sheets. FINE EARLY IMPRESSIONS OF THE FIRST EDITION, issued before the addition of 5 plates. One of the most important of all Renaissance architectural works, reprinted countless times and of profound influence on subsequent theory. Fowler 351a; Cicognara 416; Berlin Katalog 2578. Antonio LABACCO (c. 1495-1559). Libro appartenente a l'architettura . Rome: the artist, 1559. 1 4 (architectural title, 3 leaves of letterpress: colophon, papal privileges, preface); 2-4 2 5-6 6 7 2 8 4 9 2 (2 extended with half-sheet) 10 6 (1 letterpress text, 10 blank). 37 numbered leaves: 28 engravings including the extension to the double-page plate on quire 9. Third edition, issue a (of 4). Fowler 166; Berlin Katalog 1839. Master G.A. with the Caltrop and the Monogrammist P.S. Suite of 29 engravings on 15 half-sheets (Lafreri paper, flower watermark), printed on rectos only. Rome: dated 1535-37 (impressions somewhat later). Cornices, capitals and bases of Ionic, Corinthian and composite columns in Rome. Cf. Berlin Katalog 3905. [Enea VICO (c. 1523-1567)]. Suite of 11 engravings on 8 half-sheets, printed on rectos only. [Rome? probably A. Lafreri, c. 1550]. (One leaf remargined.) Lion supporters, acanthus, putti, satyrs. Bartsch 452-3, 457-60, 462-6. ANONYMOUS MASTER. Leviores et (ut videtur) extemporaneae picturae quas grotteschas vulgo vocant . [Rome: c. 1540]. Suite of 16 numbered engravings printed on half-sheets (same paperstock as the Masters G.A. and P.S. series listed above), rectos only. Last 3 plates with 2 images each. (Outer margins of plates 3, 5, 7 and 13 extended, presumably at the moment of binding.) RARE FIRST EDITION, copied in 1541 by Enea Vico These images and even the phrasing of the title evidently inspired Androuet du Cerceau's suite of small grotesques (q.v.) Berlin Katalog 533; Bartsch 468-72, 474-5, 477-8, 480-84, 486-8. [Enea VICO]. Suite of 16 numbered engraved plates. Rome: Antonio Lafreri, 1550-53. Half-sheets, at least three paper stocks, one (w/m flower) shared with the suites by Master G.A. and the anonymous master above. (Outer margins of plates 1, 5 and 11 extended with strips of paper from one of the same stocks.) Antique Roman trophies. Berlin Katalog 540; Guilmard p. 289; Bartsch 434-49. ANONYMOUS MASTER. Suite of 13 numbered engravings printed on 7 half-sheets (Lafreri paper, w/m flower). [Rome: A. Lafreri, c. 1550]. (piece torn from blank margin of pl. 6.) Empty cartouches. Apparently unrecorded. ANONYMOUS MASTER. Suite of 23 numbered etchings on 6 half-sheets (Lafreri paper, w/m flower). [Rome: A. Lafreri, c. 1550]. Grotesque ancient masks found in Rome. Apparently unrecorded. Enea VICO Suite of 14 numbered engraved plates on half-sheets (Lafreri paper). Rome: 1543. FINE IMPRESSIONS. Antique vases. Berlin Katalog 1125. Bartsch 420
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