Title and dedication engraved in Latin and Italian on facing pages. Printed Latin text followed by Italian translation, section by section or page by page throughout.
First Italian edition of Otto van Veen's emblem book based on Horace. Originally published in Antwerp, 1607, in Latin.
Many plates signed: SM inci. [Stefano Mulinari incidit].
Signatures: a-b⁴ A-Fff⁴ (F4 blank).
Title and dedication pages as well as engraved coat of arms have decorative borders and are printed in brown, black, and red; borders have hand-painted yellow details. Coat of arms is of Gian Luca Pallavicini, to whom the work is dedicated.
Includes 103 full-page engravings. Mulinari's engraved emblems are modeled on those of the first edition.
Introductory text in first fascicle has engraved initials and tail piece printed in red. Engraved illustrations are printed in green, black, and shades of brown, red, yellow, and blue.
A large quarto in "twos": quires A through Fff were cut apart, no doubt to allow each half sheet to run through the engraving press with a different color of ink. Assembled like folios, sewn through each folded half sheet.
LC copy in 18th-century Italian decorated paper wrappers with paper labels. In a quarter-morocco box with paneled spine tooled in gold and blind.
Brunet vol. 5, col. 1025 (under Vaenius)
Graesse vol. 6 pt. 2, p. 233 (under Vaenius)
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