Campo, Cremona fedelissima citta, Cremona, 1585, later calf

CAMPO, ANTONIO

Cremona fedelissima città et nobilissima colonia de romani. Cremona: in the house of the author (Ippolito Tromba and Ercoliano Bartoli), 1585

4 parts in one volume, folio (376 x 236mm.), engraved title-page with engraved portrait of Philip II on verso, woodcut initials, decorative woodcut border around each page of text, engraved and woodcut illustrations (mostly portraits), leaf ***4 in a different roman typeface and with longer text (from a later printing?), text at foot of 8*3v obscured, folding engraved map, double-page engraved map, double-page engraved plate (of the cathedral) with further engraved details on versos, without blank leaf 10*4, woodcut printer's device above colophon, later speckled calf, first few leaves and final leaf repaired at edges, engraving on verso of title-page shaved, folding map laid down and slightly damaged, double-page plate slightly torn, joints cracked, binding slightly rubbed; sold not subject to return

This seems to be a later state of printing, with the caption "David de Laude Crem. hebreus incid." on the folding map (see Mortimer). The plates were all engraved by Agostino Carracci, according to the note on [2]+2r.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 8843; IA 130.903; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 100