Printed in an edition limited to 440 numbered copies by Bertieri & Vanzetti. Ownership inscription in pencil, dated 1927, of Joseph Blumenthal on verso of front free endpaper. Textblock split along the spine, chipping to the edges of the wrappers.

Catalogue of print, woodcuts, engravings and illustrations in Italian books of the 14th and 15th centuries. Compiled by Tammaro de Marinis, who authored and catalogued a number of volumes on incunabula, bookbinding and illuminations of books and manuscripts. Preface by Seymour de Ricci, also the author and editor of a long list of literary catalogues and bibliographies. Pages 1-91comprise the catalogue for the plates that follow. Among the richly done plates on a long list of themes are several by D. Capranica on The Art of Dying Well; various representations of Attila the Scourge of God; scenes from tales by Aesop and Ovid; scenes from Christ's Passion; scenes from the lives of Mary, Mary Magdalen and various saints; illustrations of pages from an arithmetic book. Plate N. 144, done in rich colors, serves as frontispiece. Includes index.

Joseph Blumenthal was the proprietor of The Spiral Press in New York.