1669

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Source:

Title: Iconologia di Cesare Ripa
Author: Cesare Ripa
Translator: -
Publisher: -
Printer: Nicolò Pezzana
Typographer: -
Engraver: -
Location: Venetia
Year: 1669
Links: [Scan 1], [Scan 2], [Scan 3], [Scan 4]. Illustration on page 598.

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 42 editions. An overview of the 7 illustrations of a wooden press in this book can be seen here.

Technique:

Woodcut

Literature:

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