Imprese nobili, et ingeniose di diuersi prencipi et d'altri personnagi illustri : nell'arme et nelle lettere: le quali, col disegno loro estrinseco, dimostrano l'animo, et la buona, ò mala fortuna de gli autori loro. /
Pittoni, Battista,1520?
Dolce, Lodovico,1508-1568.
Fowler, William,1560?-1612,former owner.StEdNL: H.25.c.8
Balfour, James,Sir,1600-1657,former owner.StEdNL: H.25.c.8
Haddington, Thomas Hamilton,Earl of,1563-1637,former owner.StEdNL: Tyn.390
Lauder, George,of the Bass,active 17th century,former owner.StEdNL: Tyn.390
Fennell, John,active 1610-1619,binder.StEdNL: Tyn.390
In Venetia. : Presso Girolamo Porro.,
MDLXXVIII. [1578]
Engravings are by Pittoni, the poetic commentaries by Lodovico Dolce.
Engraved throughout.
Below imprint: Cum priuilegio.
Black, H.M.  Emblem books,
At the head of the titlepage there is an ink inscription "W Fouler" in a seventeenth century hand which has been cropped. There is another ink inscription at the foot of the titlepage "Ex libris Jacobi Balfournij Kynardiae Militis Baronetti Leonis Armor[um] Regis" in another seventeenth century hand.
Ink inscriptions on verso of final leaf: 1629 Empt Londini 2ss st in Deuk Lane [and] The binding in Edinb cost 3ss 4d st be Jo: Fennell. Armorial gilt stamp on front and back boards: G. Bass. Ink ownership inscription on title page: Bass. See John Morris. `Scottish bookbindings: a binding by John Fennell of Edinburgh for George Lauder of the Bass 1619'. The Bibliotheck xvi, 59-63 (1989). Armorial bookplate on title page verso: The Right Honble. Thomas Earl of Hadinton.
Bound in calf with the stamp in gold