Images des héros et des grands hommes de l'antiquité. Dessinées sur des médailles, des pierres antiques & autres anciens monumens, par Jean-Ange Canini. Gravées par Picart Le Romain &c. Avec les observations de Jean-Ange & Marc-Antoine Canini, données en Italien sur ces images, diverses remarques du traducteur, & le texte original à côté de la traduction.
Giovanni Angelo Canini (1617-1666)
Category
Books
Date
1731
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk (Accredited Museum)
On show at
Blickling Hall, Norfolk, East of England, National Trust
NT 3032695
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 377, [1] p., CXV [i.e. 117] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 4to. Running number: 5960. Leaf Vv4 (pp. 343-344) torn and repaired. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; single gilt fillet border; gilt cornerpieces built-up from a pair of crowned dolphins, small ornaments and stars; gilt roll pattern on board edges and turn-ins; spine cracked and repaired; gold-tooled spine with five raised bands, divided into six compartments, (1) and (3)-(6) with crowned dolphin stamp, stars and foliate tools within fillet and dog-tooth panel, (2) with gilt title on brown sheepskin label. Red burnished edges. Possibly a binding by the bookseller and royal bookbinder John Brindley (d. 1758), the double crowned dolphin motif being commonly found on his bindings. Pencil note on front pastedown: "Repaired by Zaehnsdorf, 1965".
Makers and roles
Giovanni Angelo Canini (1617-1666) , artist Marcantonio Canini (1618-1688), artist Jean-Guillaume de Chevrières, editor Bernard Picart (Paris 1673 - Amsterdam 1733), engraver Etienne Picart (Paris 1632 - Amsterdam 1721) , engraver Giuseppe Maria Testana (1648-1679), engraver Guillaume Vallet (1632-1704), engraver