Verdizotti (Giovanni Mario) Cento Favole Bellissime..., title with woodcut portrait medallion, 101 full-page woodcut illustrations (that on p.196 printed upside down), woodcut tail-pieces, old ink inscription of Matteus Oesterreich to verso of title (showing through) and with his small library stamp to recto and final leaf, browned, some head-lines and one or two woodcuts shaved at edges, woodcuts on K7 & 8 with top outer corner torn away with slight loss to image, engraved bookplate of P.F.Thorne and later book-label of Robert James Sells, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, tightly rebacked, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, 8vo, Venice, Gio. Pietro Brigonci, 1666.
⁂ Printed using the woodblocks from the 1570 edition by Ziletti, some of which are wormed and worn. Some of the woodcuts are believed to be after drawings by Titian who was a friend of Verdizotti.
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