xx, 344 pp, With 44 engraved portrait plates; 7 engraved head & tailpieces; engrave armorial device on title page. (4to) 25x18 cm (9¾x7"), period quarter cloth & patterned boards.
A continuation of Carlo Cesare Malvasio's Felsina pittrice vite de' pittori Bolognesi (1678), which is the reading of the half title of the present work. Lives of the Bolognese painters. Ownership signature of Geo. Stone on front pastedown.