1659 c

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Source:

Title: Idea principis christiano-politico 101 sijmbolis expressa a Didaco Saavedra Faxardo…
Author: Diego de Saavedra Fajardo
Publisher: -
Printer: Apud Joannem Jacobi fil. Schipper
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Amstelodami
Year: 1659
Links: [Scan 1], [Scan 2].

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: 3 lines. Starting with “In difficili & laborioso … legationis per trien”. But image is reversed.

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.

Technique:

Engraving