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Count Sertorio Orsato (1617-1678)
Category
Books
Date
1719
Materials
Place of origin
Padua
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3209216
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], xviii, 361, [35] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 4to. Running number: 5997. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ζ'." [i.e. zeta' = Greek number 7]. Pencil note in nineteenth or twentieth-century hand on front fly-leaf: "The plate which should be at p. 230 is at p. 280". Manuscript code on front pastedown: "G-y". Manuscript code on rear fly-leaf: "w-o [over] p [underlined]". Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; front board detached; sewn on six raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tolled spine, with gilt acorn stamps within fillet frames and roll pattern on raised bands; title label missing from spine. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Count Sertorio Orsato (1617-1678), author Giovanni Antonio Orsato (d.1743), editor Giovanni Antonio Volpi (1686-1766) Francesco Maria Fancia (1657-1735)