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VECELLIO, Cesare (1530-1606). Habiti Antichi, et Moderni di tutto il Mondo. Venice: Giovanni Bernardo Sessa, 1598.
8° (175 x 118mm). Parallel title and text in Latin and Italian. With final blank Sss4. Title with elaborate woodcut border, printer's device on verso of final leaf, 506 full-page woodcuts each within a decorative border, 501 of costumes and 5 views of Venice. (Gathering Rrr misbound, outer margin of title shaved with loss to woodcut border, Iii2 with tear in lower margin.) Contemporary limp vellum (head of spine and of lower cover with light rodent damage, inner hinges split, ties lacking.)
Second, expanded edition of one of the most extensive of the early costume books. It has 87 more illustrations than the first (published in 1590), and the material has been rearranged into 12 books, each devoted to a specific region: Italy, France, Spain, England, Northern Europe, Germany, Poland and Eastern Europe, Turkey and Greece, Hungary, Africa, Asia and the Americas. The costume illustrations were designed by Vecellio, probably from other manuscript or printed sources, and cut by Christoph Kreiger. Titian was Vecellio's cousin and may have assisted him with the designs. Colas 2977; Lipperheide Aa34; Sabin 98732; Blackmer 1721.
8° (175 x 118mm). Parallel title and text in Latin and Italian. With final blank Sss4. Title with elaborate woodcut border, printer's device on verso of final leaf, 506 full-page woodcuts each within a decorative border, 501 of costumes and 5 views of Venice. (Gathering Rrr misbound, outer margin of title shaved with loss to woodcut border, Iii2 with tear in lower margin.) Contemporary limp vellum (head of spine and of lower cover with light rodent damage, inner hinges split, ties lacking.)
Second, expanded edition of one of the most extensive of the early costume books. It has 87 more illustrations than the first (published in 1590), and the material has been rearranged into 12 books, each devoted to a specific region: Italy, France, Spain, England, Northern Europe, Germany, Poland and Eastern Europe, Turkey and Greece, Hungary, Africa, Asia and the Americas. The costume illustrations were designed by Vecellio, probably from other manuscript or printed sources, and cut by Christoph Kreiger. Titian was Vecellio's cousin and may have assisted him with the designs. Colas 2977; Lipperheide Aa34; Sabin 98732; Blackmer 1721.