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The Mattioli woodblocks.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio NC982.5 .L5 1989 1 v. + 1 pamphlet + 9 plates
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mattioli, Pietro Andrea, 1501-1577. Comentarii in libros sex Pedacii Dioscordis ... de materia medica--Illustrations.
- Mattioli, Pietro Andrea.
- Wood-engraving--Italy--16th century.
- Wood-engraving.
- Botanical illustration--Catalogs.
- Botanical illustration.
- Botany, Medical.
- Medicinal plants.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Catalogs
- Illustrated works
- Physical Description:
- 28 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm + 1 pamphlet ([4] pages) + 9 plates
- Other Title:
- Mattioli woodblocks 1562/65
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox : Bernard Quaritch ; Amsterdam : Antiquariaat Junk, 1989.
- Summary:
- Description and catalog of 110 of the wood-engravings used for Mattioli's Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis de medica materia.
- Contents:
- The Mattioli woodblocks: a remarkable survival / William Patrick Watson
- Mattioli's herbal / Sandra Raphael
- A technical note on the blocks / Iain Bain
- A catalogue of the blocks.
- Notes:
- Cover title: The Mattioli woodblocks 1562/65.
- "One hundred and fifty copies of this book have been designed by Simon Rendall and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona using Magnani mould-made paper and Monotype Dante and bound by Mario Rigoldi, Monza. The nine separate illustrations have been printed from the original blocks by Ian Mortimer and Griffith Davies at I M Imprimit, London. One hundred copies, numbered from 1 to 100, are being offered for sale, while the remaining fifty, numbered from I to L, are hors commerce."--Colophon.
- Portfolio of 9 plates printed from the original blocks and 1 pamphlet ([4] pages) with photographs of some of the woodblocks in pocket.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy is number 74 of a limited edition of 150 copies, of which those numbered 1-100 were offered for sale. See colophon.
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from AbeBooks.
- OCLC:
- 22953423
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