Shelfmark
Gl.2.01
Author
Ginanni, Marco Antonio Conte.
Title
L'arte del blasone dichiarata per alfabeto. Con le figure necessarie per la intelligenza de' termini in molte tavole impresse in rame. E tre indici, due delle voci in franzese; e latino, uno de' nomi delle famiglie, comunità e società, di cui vi sono l'arme blasonate. Del Conte Marc'Antonio Ginanni.
Publication, distribution, etc.
In Venezia, Presso Guglielmo Zerletti., MDCCLVI. [1756].
Physical description
392 p., 35 leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms ; 33 cm. (Fol.)
Language
In Italian, with Latin and French translations of words in the glossary.
Note
Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁶ C-3A⁴ 3B⁶.
Note
Frontispiece portraying a tournament is signed Andrea Barbiani and Pietro Monaco.
Note
Includes a vignette on title page; head- and tail-pieces; decorated initials.
Note
Title page printed in red and black.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Errata on last leaf.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Binding
18th-century quarter-bound speckled calfskin and marbled paper over pasteboards. Covers undecorated. Spine flat, decorated with gilt titling over vellum label ("L'arte del blasone."). Textblock trimmed and sprinkled green. Endpapers of undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: DDl.1.7.
Subject
Heraldry Dictionaries.
Added entry--name
Zerletti, Guglielmo printer.
Added entry--name
Monaco, Pietro, 1707 - 1772 engraver.
Added entry--name
Barbiani, Andrea, 1708 - 1779 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--place
Italy Venice.
Language code
ita
Identifier
B51462