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FULVIO, Andrea (fl. 1510-1543). Illustrium imagines. Rome: Jacopo Mazzocchi, 15 November 1517.
4o (163 x 114 mm). Collation: A-Z4 AA-GG4. Woodcut title border in the form of a tablet or tomb, 204 white-on-black medallion portraits, each set in the space in the upper part of a border block which contains the text set in a second place below. (Short marginal tear on Y4, small internal paper flaw on GG1 slightly affecting border.) 16th-century German blind-tooled calf (lacking ties, small split to bottom of front joint, bookplate removed from pastedown). Provenance: Wilten Library (red library stamp on title); acquired from Georges Heilbrun, 1971.
FIRST EDITION of the earliest collection of reproductions of ancient coins to be printed. Fulvio is named as the author on leaf GG4v. The portraits are taken from coins and medals in Mazzocchi's own collection, and the cuts are ascribed to Ugo da Carpi and despite Servolini's reserved judgment about the attribution, "they are certainly the result of a master at work" (Mortimer). The portraits show famous men and women, mostly emperors and their wives, of the Roman, Byzantine and German medieval history, and served in the sixteenth century as a basic reference for the study of Greek and Roman iconography. There are eight different border designs. The portraits and borders were later copied for the Antoine Blanchard's Lyon edition of 1524 for Jean Monsnier and François Juste and for Johann Huttich's Imperatorum romanorum libellus. Adams F-1156; Ascarelli Mazzocchi 116; Brunet II:1423 Cicognara 2851; Mortimer Italian 203; Sander I:2978.
4o (163 x 114 mm). Collation: A-Z4 AA-GG4. Woodcut title border in the form of a tablet or tomb, 204 white-on-black medallion portraits, each set in the space in the upper part of a border block which contains the text set in a second place below. (Short marginal tear on Y4, small internal paper flaw on GG1 slightly affecting border.) 16th-century German blind-tooled calf (lacking ties, small split to bottom of front joint, bookplate removed from pastedown). Provenance: Wilten Library (red library stamp on title); acquired from Georges Heilbrun, 1971.
FIRST EDITION of the earliest collection of reproductions of ancient coins to be printed. Fulvio is named as the author on leaf GG4v. The portraits are taken from coins and medals in Mazzocchi's own collection, and the cuts are ascribed to Ugo da Carpi and despite Servolini's reserved judgment about the attribution, "they are certainly the result of a master at work" (Mortimer). The portraits show famous men and women, mostly emperors and their wives, of the Roman, Byzantine and German medieval history, and served in the sixteenth century as a basic reference for the study of Greek and Roman iconography. There are eight different border designs. The portraits and borders were later copied for the Antoine Blanchard's Lyon edition of 1524 for Jean Monsnier and François Juste and for Johann Huttich's Imperatorum romanorum libellus. Adams F-1156; Ascarelli Mazzocchi 116; Brunet II:1423 Cicognara 2851; Mortimer Italian 203; Sander I:2978.