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1659 b

[brief description]

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Source:

Title: Idea de un principe politico christiano, representada en cien empresas.
Author: Diego de Saavedra Fajardo
Publisher: -
Printer: Joh. Janssonium
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Amsterdam
Year: 1659
Links: [Scan 1].

Comments:

This book has been reprinted and translated many times, often with a different illustration of a wooden printing press. A preliminary bibliography of this book lists 48 editions. An overview of the 44 illustrations of a wooden press in these editions can be seen here.

Text under image is 4 lines. Starting with “En la trabajosa … que forman la Idea”.

There are three editions printed in 1659 in Amsterdam. The typesetting in these books differs, and the name on the frontispice coppergravure differs, but it looks as if both books used the same copper gravure for this illustration. Pedro Campa (1990, page 79) states: ‘There is also an edition of Amsterdam; Jansonium Jr. 1659 of the same format and size as the above ... which has often been confused with SX19’.

Technique:

Engraving

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