Printer from colophon

"Ragionamento di Lvca Contile sopra VIIII. inventioni e loro origine, impropriamente chiamate imprese, e sopra la vera proprieta d'esse e loro inventore, da lvi recitato nella Academia de gli Affidati in Pauia"--Leaf 1r-43v. This is followed by the 1st device, that of Philip II of Spain, to whom the work is dedicated; it is depicted in a full-page engraving on L4r (unfoliated). The 2nd device is that of the Academia degli Affidati; it and the subsequent devices of individual academici are depicted in less than full-page engravings on the left-hand pages of openings, followed by the text which often has a shaped ending. The devices have elaborate borders and incorporate the owner's motto and academic pseudonym

Engraved t.p. Decorated and historiated initials. Headpieces of printer's ornaments. Bartoli's hydra device at colophon

Signatures: * A-2P 2Q(-Q4) 2R

"Tavola de gli avtori citati in qvesto libro"--Leaf *4v

Includes index

Errata, leaf 2R7v

Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese emblem books

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th-cent.

Binding: limp vellum. Title written on spine: Imprese, di Luca Contile. Holes for two pairs of ties at foredge

Leaves S3, S4, 2A4, 2C1, 2H4 are cancels in Getty copy. Leaf 2Q4, originally intended as the last leaf--with register, colophon and errata--has been removed, as in other copies; see Mortimer

Inscription on back pastedown: Lisa & Leonard Baskin, 1974

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