Folio (12 1/8 x 7 5/8 in.; 306 x 194 mm).  Engraved architectural title incorporating portraits of the author and of the translator by Thomas Cockson [Johnson, p. 7] , 46 full-page engraved text illustrations after the originals in Porro’s edition of 1584, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials and frames for “The Argument” of each book, all illustrations and decorative elements with bright  contemporary hand-color;  moderate marginal soiling and spotting throughout.  Seventeenth-century red morocco gilt-tooled in a Samuel Mearne-type panel design with foliate stamps at four corners and larger interlace foliate tools along the edges of the frame, spine richly gilt with title stamped in one compartment, edges gilt and gauffered;  rebacked with original spine laid down, some stains and a few small scuffmarks,  extremities worn.