Dialogo di M. Lodovico Dolce, nel quale si ragiona del modo di accrescere e conseruar la memoria.

Description

Main Author

Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568

Related Names

Romberch, Johann Horst von, active 1505-1532.
Sessa, Giovanni Battista, active 1546-1602, printer,
Sessa, Melchiorre, active 1546-1600, printer,
Giovanni Battista Sessa & fratelli

Language(s)

Italian

Published

In Venetia : Appresso Gio. Battista, et Marchio Sessa Fratelli, 1562.

Subjects

Mnemonics.
Wood-engraving > Wood-engraving / Italy > Wood-engraving / Italy / 16th century > Wood-engraving / Italy / 16th century / Specimens.
Early printed books > Early printed books / Italy > Early printed books / Italy / Venice > Early printed books / Italy / Venice / 16th century > Early printed books / Italy / Venice / 16th century / Specimens.
Mnemonics > Mnemonics / Early works to 1800.
Signatures (Binder's notations) (Printing)
Octavo format (Printing)
Printer's devices (Printing)
Decorated initials.
Historiated intials.
Woodcuts (prints)

Note

Woodcut illustrations, many full page; including a woodcut of a book shop and the impedimenta of a library (opposite leaf 34 and on leaf 35.) Those on pages leaves G4r-G7v are from blocks designed for Johann Host von Romberch's Congestorium artificiose memorie, printed by Giorgio de' Ruscioni in 1520.
Title page has first word of title in woodcut cartouche, and title vignette of Pegasus, the Sessa printer's device; one historiated and one foliated initial. Signature register on Colophon.
Signatures: *⁴ A-P⁸.
Erratum on colophon page.
Imprint from colophon.
"Con privilegio."
Based on Johann Romberch, von Horst's Congestorium artificiose memorie.

Physical Description

[4], 119, [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 16 cm (8vo)

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