La pratica di prospettiua del Caualiere Lorenzo Sirigatti :
al Sermo. Ferdinando Medici granduca di Toscana.
Description
- Language(s)
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Italian
- Published
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In Venetia, Per Girolamo Franceschi sanese, libraio in Firenze, MDXCVI [1596]
In Venetia : Per Giorolamo Franceschi sanese, librario in Firenze, MDXCVI [1596]
- Note
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Includes index.
Errata: last preliminary page.
Illustrated engraved title page: title and imprint within architectural border with Medici and Sirigatti coats of arms and allegorical figures. Engraved section title page to Libro secondo has reduced version of the same border. Two woodcut ornaments; type flower headpiece; historiated and floriated initials. For iconography of printer's device, see: Zappella, Giuseppina. Le marche dei tipografi e degli editori italiani del Cinquecento, v. 1, page 279 (entry 175d).
Libro primo contains diagrams; libro secondo contains perspective renderings of architectural and geometrical subjects.
Illustrations: title page and 65 full-page engravings on 65 leaves, numbered 1-65 in the plate, including section title page to Libro secondo (no. 44). In Libro primo (no. 1-43), plates chiefly have descriptive letterpress on facing page (that is, on verso of preceding plate); plates with blank versos: 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 34, 43. In Libro secondo (no. 45-65), all plates have blank versos; lettered A-Y at the foot as well as numbered. Plate marks: 29 x 21 cm-31 x 22 cm.
Signatures: A⁴, [unsigned, 1-16⁴ 17²].
Engraved "Pax" device (EDIT 16 V332) on recto of unnumbered leaf at end of Libro primo, with imprint: Venetia : Appresso Girolamo de Franceschi senese, MDXCVI. The device is associated with the Venetian printer Francesco de' Franceschi.
Colophon (page [8] at beginning): "Stampato in Venetia adi 28. Ottobrio 1596. Per Girolamo Franceschi sanese, libraio in Firenze."
- Physical Description
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[8] pages, 43, [1], 44-65 leaves [that is, 132 pages] :
66 illustrations ;
42 cm (fol.)
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