Le imagini con tutti i riuersi trouati et le uite de gli imperatori : tratte dalle medaglie e dalle historie de gli antichi : libro primo / Enea Vico Parm. f. l'anno .M DXLVIII.

[Venice] : [s.n.], 1548.

[36] p., [42] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 22 cm (4to)

Plates engraved by E. Vico; text by Antonio Zantani who has also written 2 notes to readers.
The first signature consists of the engraved title and the preliminary text. With the second signature, regular sheets are laid out with the copper-plates while the printed text (14 leaves) is inserted in place in half sheets and single leaves.
Place of publication from BM STC Italian.
Printer's device on verso of last leaf.
Signatures: []⁴, [1]⁴(+2), [2]⁴(+2), [3]⁴(+2), [4]²(+1), [5]1(+1), [6]⁴(+1), [7]⁴(+1), [8]⁴(+2), [10]⁴(+1), [11]⁴(+1), [12]⁴(+1), []².
Plate signature [3] has one leaf of text and one additional plate inserted.
Text leaves 8 and 9 are inserted in plate signature [8].
Title engraved within an architectural border with figures and Zantani's arms. Engraved port. medallions of the Roman Emperors in the upper pt. of full-page copperplate ornamental cartouches; added to the ports. are 62 full-page copperplates containing spaces for coins or medals, most of the spaces filled but some left blank. Cf. Mortimer.

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2010. Extending the Book.

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent., 556
BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 741
Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, Z68
BN CCXXIX, column 1089

Italy -- Venice.

DG276.5 .Z2 1548 Cage

Folger copy: some coins have been cut out, others colored. Hatfield-Latton copy.