Idea de un príncipe político christiano, representada en cien empresas
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 1271
Author
Saavedra Fajardo, Diego de, 1584-1648
Title
Idea de un príncipe político christiano, representada en cien empresas
Statement of responsibility
Va enmendada en esta sexta impresión de todos los yerros que avía en las otras
Place of publication
Valencia
Publisher
Francisco Cipres
Collection
Not identified
Printer
Francisco Cipres
Date
1675
Imprint (isbd)
Valencia: por Francisco Cipres, 1675
Language
Spanish
Print run
Sixth corrected impression; no mention of a special issue observed
Original work
Idea de un príncipe político christiano, representada en cien empresas
Original language
Spanish
Translator
Not applicable
Collation
Not fully verified; work illustrated with engraved emblems
Illustrations
Emblematic woodcut/intaglio engravings interspersed in the text; title page with engraved heraldic coat of arms
Format
Octavo (8º) approx.
Dimensions
Not determined
Typographic signatures
Not verified in the supplied images
Paper type
Handmade laid paper
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
Spanish Baroque roman and italic type of the seventeenth century; good letterpress impression with slight visible pressure
Binding type
Old full leather binding
Colours
Dark brown
Decoration
No visible tooling on the boards; sober structure of a conventual or scholarly library binding; endpapers of repetitive polychrome woodblock-decorated paper
Spine
Smooth spine with manuscript title label on red paper
Edges
No visible decoration
Content description
Fundamental political and moral treatise of the Spanish Baroque composed through emblematic devices. It combines political theory, Christian morality and emblem literature applied to the education of the prince
Note 1
Sixth corrected impression of one of the major works of Spanish Golden Age political thought
Note 2
The prologue expressly mentions the Paris printing of 1642 corrected by the author
Note 3
Includes numerous engraved emblems interspersed in the text
Note 4
Preserves old manuscript signature dated 1864
Note 5
Fully old binding with solid structure despite wear
Main subject
Spanish Baroque political thought
Subtopics
Emblem literature; education of the prince; Christian morality; political theory; Spanish Golden Age; Spanish Baroque
Shelfmark
1271
Condition
Good for a seventeenth-century working copy; heavy wear and darkening to the leather; scattered foxing and stains; slight old damp marks; adequate margins; solid structure
Provenance
Biblioteca de Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Possible earlier provenance from a private scholarly nineteenth-century library; no modern restorations visible in the supplied images