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The Fulvio Leaf Book

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The Fulvio Leaf Book
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[Fulvio, Andrea]. ILLUSTRIUM IMAGINES. INCORPORATING AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF NOTA BY ROBERTO WEISS. ACCOMPANIED BY A LEAF FROM THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED NUMISMATIC BOOK. Crestline: Kolbe, 2001. 8vo, original Japanese black cloth; red goatskin label, gilt. 35, (7) pages; illustrated, including a title facsimile, color plate of a Renaissance Gentleman, specially commissioned woodcut, facsimiles of both colophons, and an original woodcut leaf from the original 1517 edition of Illustrium Imagines. Fine. Copy No. 71 of an edition limited to 151 numbered copies, each accompanied by an original 1517 leaf depicting a coin (in this case two coins). Printed letterpress by Bird & Bull Press on mould-made paper.