ALCIAT Andrea. Emblemata...cum Imaginibus plerisque restitutis ad mentem Auctoris, Adiecta compendiosa explicatione Claudii Minois et notulis extemporiis Laurentii Pignorii.
Padua, P.P.Tozzi, 1618 8vo: engraved title-page, 1+ 211 woodcut emblems. Contemporary limp vellum;a light waterstain in the last gathering. An important edition, the first to result from the collaboration of the antiquarian scholar, Pignoria and the publisher Tozzi. This Paduan team was later to produce the definitive edition of 1621 as well as scholarly illustrated editions of Cartari and Conti. There is a prefatory letter dedicating the edition to the Bishop of Ferrara, Mignault's life of Alciat and a note on the 'obscene' emblem LXXX. These are followed by an interesting address to the reader by Pignoria and his notes: in later editions these were incorporated, with alterations, into the main commentary.
£1400
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