Engraved t. p. with ornamental border included in plate count.

At head of title: Sancti per fidem vicervnt regna.

Cavalieri has engraved reproductions of Circignano's frecoes in the church of St. Thomas of Canterbury of the English College in Rome.

Originally published Romae: Ex officina Bartholomaei Grassi, 1584. Only the imprint has been replaced, no other changes in the work.

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent., 125, 118

Adams C2037

Cicognara I, 2008

Library's copy has 4 numbered leaves of plates, of which no. 2 has line: Ioann Orlandi formis romae, 1602, from: Descriptiones qvaedam illivs inhvmanae et mvltiplicis persecvtionis. quam in Anglia propter fidem sustinent Catholicè Christiani. [Romae. Apud Franciscum Zannettum. 1584] [2] p. & 4, [1] leaves of plates. This title taken from the 2 p. of letterpress (Cf. Yale NUC) whereas some bibliographies use the caption title from the unnumbered leaf of plates: Crvdelitas in Catholicis mactadis / Ioa. Baptista de Cauallerijs incidebat. Romae, Anno Domini 1584. Adams reports: "ff. [10]. of which all except the first are engraved on one side only." Each of the 4 plates here has a caption title and engraved descriptive text.