Creator
Don Blasio Altimaro.
Title
De nullitatibus contractuum. . . . Rubricae primae, pars quarta.
Coverage
Naples:
Publisher
Caroli Porpora & Nicolai Abri,
Date
1704.
Description
This large and luxurious early 18th-century bookbinding is from a six-volume set that was intended for presentation to Francesco Pignatelli (1652–1734), a cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, by the Italian author Don Blasio Altimaro, who likely hoped to gain financial support or other forms of patronage in return for his gift. RBS faculty member David Whitesell points out the presence of blind-scored lines dividing the upper and lower covers into four equal quadrants. These lines were made by the binder to help plot out the complex, symmetrical tooling design.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School