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STRADA, Jacopo (1507-1588). Imperatorum romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines ex antiquis numismatis. Zurich: Andreas Gesner, 1559.
The folio edition of one of the most celebrated iconographical series of the Renaissance, describing the medals in the collection of Jacopo Strada, an antiquary of Mantua.
Folio (482 x 370mm). Title within woodcut cartouche, 118 full-page woodcut medallion portraits by Rudolf Wyssenbach after Rudolf Manuel Deutsch, each within architectural woodcut border, text on verso within woodcut border of putti, fruit and grotesques, and with arabesque ornaments by P. Flötner, woodcut historiated initials (title, a4, a5 and final 2 leaves remargined at inner margin, some light dampstaining heavier in first leaves, small wormhole to inner margin of some leaves at beginning and to bottom margin at end, red stain to plate of P4, final leaf with small repair in border of plate with small loss). Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, red edges (some worming, lacking ties, some wear to corners); modern slipcase. Provenance: Alfred Pfeiffer (bookplate).
The 118 portraits of Roman Emperors were based on the octavo-format, Zurich edition of 1557, and enlarged for the benefit of craftsmen decorating majolica, furniture, glass and ceramics. Flötner's arabesque ornaments had been previously published in the rare Kunstbuch (Zurich, 1549). The decoration on the verso of folio 50 includes a small panel containing his initials and tools, with date 1546. Adams S-1919; Goldsmith Printed Books of the Renaissance, pp. 76ff.
The folio edition of one of the most celebrated iconographical series of the Renaissance, describing the medals in the collection of Jacopo Strada, an antiquary of Mantua.
Folio (482 x 370mm). Title within woodcut cartouche, 118 full-page woodcut medallion portraits by Rudolf Wyssenbach after Rudolf Manuel Deutsch, each within architectural woodcut border, text on verso within woodcut border of putti, fruit and grotesques, and with arabesque ornaments by P. Flötner, woodcut historiated initials (title, a4, a5 and final 2 leaves remargined at inner margin, some light dampstaining heavier in first leaves, small wormhole to inner margin of some leaves at beginning and to bottom margin at end, red stain to plate of P4, final leaf with small repair in border of plate with small loss). Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, red edges (some worming, lacking ties, some wear to corners); modern slipcase. Provenance: Alfred Pfeiffer (bookplate).
The 118 portraits of Roman Emperors were based on the octavo-format, Zurich edition of 1557, and enlarged for the benefit of craftsmen decorating majolica, furniture, glass and ceramics. Flötner's arabesque ornaments had been previously published in the rare Kunstbuch (Zurich, 1549). The decoration on the verso of folio 50 includes a small panel containing his initials and tools, with date 1546. Adams S-1919; Goldsmith Printed Books of the Renaissance, pp. 76ff.
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