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Title
Achillis Bocchii Bonon. Symbolicarum quaestionum, de vniuerso genere, quas serio ludebat, libri quinque
Authors and contributors
  • Bocchi, Achille, 1488-1562.
  • Bonasone, Giulio, ca. 1498-ca. 1580. illustrator.
  • Fontana, Prospero, 1512-1597. illustrator.
  • Rocca, Michele, ca. 1670-ca. 1751. illustrator.
  • Societ�a Tipografica bolognese. publisher.
Publisher
Apud Societatem Typographi� Bononiensis
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Place of Publication
Bononiae
Publication Date
MDLXXIIII [1574]
Physical Description
print[48], ccclvii, [3] p. (last [2] p. are blank) : ill. (engravings) ; 21 cm. (4to)
Language
  • lat
Subjects
  • Symbolism in art -- Early works to 1800
  • Emblems, Latin -- Early works to 1800
  • Art, Renaissance -- Early works to 1800
Notes
  • 151 engraved emblems; copperplates ascribed to Giulio Bonasone, after designs by Prospero Fontana and Parmigianino.
  • In the Emblems copy, emblems 28, 34, 36, 50, 103, 111, 113 and 145 corrected by pasteovers; emblem 112 mounted on blank page (cf. McGeary & Nash); the Baldwin copy is correct in these places, without pasteovers.
  • Includes index.
  • Binding (Emblems copy): Full green morocco, stamped in gilt, signed 'Lortic'; marbled endpapers.
  • Binding (Baldwin copy): Half leather on paper boards.
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