1618

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Title: Della novissima iconologia di Cesare Ripa Perugino ...: parte prima [-terza] : opera utile ad oratori, predicatori, poeti, pittori, scultori ... per inventar concetti, emblemi, ed’imprese, per divisare qual si voglia apparato nutiale, funerale, trionfale, Volumes 1-3.
Author: Cesare Ripa
Publisher: Pietro Paolo Tozzi
Printer: Donato Pasquati
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Padua
Year: 1618
Links: [Scan 1], [Scan 2], [Scan 3], [Scan 4].

Comments:

This book has been reprinted and translated many times, often with a different illustration of a wooden printing press. A preliminary bibliography of this book lists 42 editions. An overview of the 7 illustrations of a wooden press in this book can be seen here.

Technique:

Woodcut