Jacobean Armorial Binding

Short paragraph of headline text about this book Romanarum antiquitatum libri decem Basel, ex off. Petri Pernae, per Conradum Waldkirch, 1583. Folio, [24], 491, [65] p., printer's device on title and at end, double-page plan of early Rome, woodcuts in the text (some of them large), some spotting owing to poor quality paper, title very slightly soiled and creased, flyleaf torn, contemporary, probably French, calf, gilt ornaments in compartments of spine, gilt fillet, large English armorial stamp (height 105 mm) added some 20 years later, neat but quite extensive repair. A popular handbook of Roman Realien, which ran through many editions right up until 1743.