Opere del Cardinale Pietro Bembo ora per la prima volta tutte in un corpo unite. ...
Cardinal Pietro Bembo (1470-1547)
Category
Books
Date
1729
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3042212
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v. : port. ; fol. Running number: 7470. Damp, mould and water-staining throughout all vols., particularly in vols. 2 and 3. Binding: eighteenth-century full tan calf (covers water-stained); sewn on seven raised bands; double and single gilt fillet border with small gilt cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spines, with crowned double fish[?] stamps within fillet and stamp panels; gilt title on brown leather label and gilt vol. number in dark stained panel on spines. Red sprinkled textblock edges. Wide comb pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Cardinal Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) , author Giovanni Della Casa (1503-1556) Archbishop of Benevento, author Francesco Zucchi (Venice 1692 - Venice 1764), engraver (printmaker)