Memorie concernenti la città di Urbino
A 1724 Roman printed history of the city of Urbino by Bernardino Baldi, a scholar and writer, covering its ducal palace and buildings, with engraved plates set on blank pages. The engravings show small framed machines and devices with Roman numerals, a tall arched architectural panel with ornamental bands, and a round ornamented medallion flanked by crossed batons, drawn in fine black line on plain white, offering designers compact engraved vignettes of mechanical and decorative forms.




















