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<dl><dd>Signatures: A A-G</dd>
<dd>Library's copy lacks leaf G4, with printer's device on verso (cf. facsim. ed. published Bologna : SEAB, 1977)</dd>
<dd>Binding: later tan paper sprinkled black, quarter calfskin. Spine label with title tooled in gilt: BIONDO / NOB. PIT. The edges yellow. Place marker of red silk ribbon</dd>
<dd>At upper left corner of front pastedown is book label with coronet; shelf mark: E 302. At head of front free endpaper verso is signature: Girolamo Caratti, Udine. Two sonnets written on verso of last leaf, under the heading (whose first line is in gold): Di M. FRANCESCO PETRARCHA / In Lode dell' Ecc.mo Pittore, Simone [Martini] da SIENA; / il quale diuinamente, dal Naturale ritrasse Mad. / LAVRA, Amante del detto POETA. Occasional marginal notes in the same hand</dd>
<dd>According to the bookseller, Library's copy is from the Giannalisa Feltrinelli collection; neither her bookplate nor her blind embossed stamp are present</dd>
<dd>[4], 27, [1] leaf 15 cm</dd>
<dd>Printed by Bartolomeo, detto l'Imperatore, whose device appears on last leaf</dd>
<dd>Printed on blue paper</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A⁴ A-G⁴</dd>
<dd>Some copies printed on blue paper</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Painting; Painters; Painting -- Early works to 1800; Painting -- Technique; Pintura -- Tratados, manuales, etc</div>
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Biondo, Michelangelo, 1497-1565</div>
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