Scherzi geniali di Gio: Francesco Loredano Nobile Veneto.
Giovanni Francesco Loredano, the elder
Category
Books
Date
1676
Materials
Place of origin
Bologna
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3029393
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 347, [1] p. ; 12mo. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (small) on titlepage verso: John Lord Sommers Baron of Evesham [i.e. John, Lord Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled, polished calf over boards on three raised cords, blind spine tooling, gilt spine lettering, double blind fillet with inner triple blind fillet and cornerpiece rectangular compartment design on covers, gilt roll on board edges, red and blue sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Francesco Loredano, the elder