Frontespizi incisi nel libro italiano del seicento
A 1922 Florentine study by Giuseppe Boffito cataloguing engraved title pages of seventeenth-century Italian books, shown here as reproductions of frontispieces for scholars of printing and engraving. The pages are dense with allegorical figures, cartouches, coats of arms, putti and architectural framing, offering a designer ready models for ornate title-page layout, symmetrical composition and emblematic ornament built around a central lettered panel.
