Device of the Società tipografica bolognese on t.p. (female allegory of Bologna). The 2nd emblem is Bocchi's port. (A3v). Mortimer notes that Giulio Bonasone's engravings after Prospero Fontana and Parmigianino are repeated from the 1st ed. of 1555 except for no. 36 which is a copy. Agostino Carracci may have engraved no. 1, which in the 1555 ed. is a woodcut; he retouched the others, the occurrence of first and second states varying from copy to copy. One historiated initial, †2r

An extra leaf is bound before A1 in Getty copy (the missing final blank?). Mounted on it is a copy of the leaf from the 1st ed. that bears the woodcut version of emblem 1, with text beginning "LECTORI STVDIOSO" showing through from the other side (leaf trimmed to 151 x 88 mm.)

Getty copy has the hand corrections on C4r, E2r and E4 noted by Mortimer, but those on 2A1r and 2S3r have been printed correctly

Signatures: † b-f A-2Y

List of authors, †3r-4v

Includes index

Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese emblem books

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent.

Getty copy lacks final blank leaf

Binding: dark green goatskin, faded on spine (early 19th-century?). Tooled in gilt on boards, spine, edges of boards and turn-ins. Page edges gilt. Red silk place marker

Centered on front pastedown is bookplate of Thomas South, surmounted by a ducal coronet and dragon crest. Below it is the label of Ulrich Middeldorf. Bibliographical notes in pencil on 2nd front free endpaper recto. Owner's inscription at head of t.p.: Ex libris Stephani Trapae canonici et officialis Albien.s

[48], ccclvii, [3] p. (last [2] p. are blank) : 21 cm (4to)

List of authors, [dagger]3r-4v

Copperplates ascribed to Giulio Bonasone, after designs by Prospero Fontana and Parmigianino

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