Title within border of type ornaments. Text pages within border of rules, with additional rules forming compartments for headlines, footlines and marginalia. Grotesque and foliated initials

Engraving on t.p. verso of the arms of Cardinal Ottavio Aquaviva, to whom the work is dedicated. Engraving on [dagger]6v illustrates legends connected with St. Maria del Popolo. Those on B2r and C2v depict the church. Remaining ill. are ports. of popes who supported the church

Signatures: [dagger]⁶ A-Q⁴ R⁶

Includes index

Errata, p. [139]

In Getty copy ill. on C2v has been picked out in places with red chalk

Binding: modern decorated paper

[12], 138, [2] pages : 20 cm (4to)

First edition of the first monograph on a single church in Rome: Santa Maria del Popolo

Last two pages are blank

Woodcuts: large white pictorial initials; tail-pieces; text within ruled borders

Engravings: illustrated with 15 engravings, 11 of which are three-quarter page portraits of popes associated with Santa Maria del Popolo; also included are coat of arms of dedicatee, Octavio Aquavive, cardinal of Santa Maria del Popolo; ithe interior and altar of the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, and a montage of small vignettes illustrating scenes from the foundation legend of Santa Maria del Popolo

Alberici's dedicatory epistle is addressed to Ottavio Aquavive, cardinal priest of Santa Maria del Popolo, and dated April 2, 1598 at the monastery of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome

Errata: page [1] at end (leaf R6r)

Text printed in large roman type, sidenotes in small roman type; text block within ruled borders

Not in: Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum; or Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries

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