202, [2] p. 35 cm. (fol.)

Nineteen of the 40 plates are double sheets. Paging includes most of the plates as well as the fifty letterpress leaves, double-sheet plates being counted as 2, 4 or 6 pages depending on extent. Page 82 followed in numbering by 82-2 and 82-3

Engraved frontispiece by Josef Juster after Louis Dorigny. T.p. ill. by Martial Desbois after Guido Reni. Artists of paintings reproduced are identified in legends as: Jacopo Bassano, Carlo Caliari, Annibale Carracci, Lodovico Carracci, Domenico Contarini(?), Guercino, Hans Holbein, Noël Jouvenet (port. of Patin family), Leonardo (in Patin collection), Andrea Michieli, Padovanino, Poussin, Tintoretto, Titian, Veronese. The etchings and engravings are by Noël-Robert Cochin, Martial Desbois, Josef Juster, Johann Jakob Thurneysen, Hubert Vincent. Head- and tail-pieces (that on p. [5] etched), initials

[204, i.e. 206] pages 39 cm

Engraved half-title. Title vignette; initials; head and tail pieces

Leaf inserted between p. 82 and 83 numbered 82-2, 82-3

Nineteen of the 40 plates are double sheets. Paging includes most of the plates as well as the fifty letterpress leaves, double-sheet plates being counted as 2, 4 or 6 pages depending on extent

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