Includes index

Engraved title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials, and plates by Cosimo Mogalli, Carlo Gregori, Georg Martin Preissler, Giovanni Marco Pitteri, and others, mostly after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia

Library's c.1 bound in old polished calf; gilt boards with the coat of arms of the Lincoln's Inn Library on front board; gilt spine; marbled edges; engraved armorial bookplate of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn on front pastedown; Lincoln's Inn Library stamps throughout the volume

Library's c.2 bound in old mottled calf; gilt spine; mottled edges; this copy is bound with plates and text interleaved

Library's c.3 bound in old vellum; gilt label on spine; armorial bookplate of William Willoughby Cole, 3rd earl of Enniskillen, on front pastedown; sprinkled edges

Binding, c. 4: goatskin, spine gilt tooled with title & vol. no. on label, edges red. Armorial bookplate of Somerhill Library, and ownership inscription of Paolino Santini, dated 1771

xxxv, 111, [1] pages, [100] leaves of plates : 47 cm. (fol.)

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