Accession number
PML 199043.1
Creator
Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554.
Published
Impresso in Venetia : Per Francesco Marcolino ..., 1540, del mese di Mar. 20.
Credit line
T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description
CLV pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, plans (woodcuts) ; 41 cm (folio)
Notes
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: [A]² B-V⁴ (78 leaves).
Title set within a cartouche held by putti above a large woodcut of antique ruins, 120 woodcut illustrations (32 full-page, 4 full-sheet), woodcut printer's device and typographic colophon bo
Signatures: [A]² B-V⁴ (78 leaves).
Title set within a cartouche held by putti above a large woodcut of antique ruins, 120 woodcut illustrations (32 full-page, 4 full-sheet), woodcut printer's device and typographic colophon bo
Binding
Parisian olive goatskin (410 x 274 mm), ca. 1555, by the Cupid's Bow Binder, richly gilt, 3 gilt fillets around sides, frame of 3 interlaced triple fillets, in center panel interlaced rectangle and lozenge surrounded by large variety of arabesque, azured,
Variant title
Terzo libro di Sabastiano Serlio Bolognese, nel qval si figvrano e descrivono le antiqvita di Roma
Provenance
Jean Blondelet (died 2001), initials in blue ink on lower pastedown; Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Paris (Sixteen Exceptional Books from the 13th to the 19th Century, 2007); T. Kimball Brooker (b. 1939), his sale: Bibliotheca Brookeriana, Sotheby's, New York,
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