Principj della Stampa in Perugia e suoi Progressi per tutto il secolo XV

 8vo. viii, 209 pp.  Later 19th century cloth spine over marbled paper board, original front wrapper bound-in.  With the book label of Tammaro De Marinis. 

Second edition,originally published in 1806 in only 66 pages.   Vermiglioli's Principj begins with a lengthy history of the origins of printing in Perugia, followed by descriptions of 21 books printed during the incunable period. Each entry is well described with considerable annotations referring to these publications.  This is the second bibliography of printing in Perugia, Pietro Brandolese published research in 1807 listing 18 incunable editions.  The final nine pages of the book contains a list of works published by the author, who was a member of the faculty at Perugia and director of the Museo Antiquario.

Giovanni Battista Vermiglioli (1769-1848), was born and educated in Perugia and took degrees in art and law.  He was drawn to the history of Perugia and published a number of important works on Etruscan culture which flourished long before the Romans dominated the territory.  He was the author of at least nine bibliographical works on early printing in Perugia.  "Vermiglioli's culture and production always retained the encyclopedic approach of his eighteenth-century education and the prevailing interest in the most varied aspects and almost all eras of the history of his city" (Polverini). 

G. Ottino e G. Fumagalli, Bibliotheca Bibliographica Italica, 392-93.  Brunet  Manuel du Libraire, V, p. 1143.  Bigmore & Wyman, Bibliography of Printing,  III, p. 47.  Besterman, World Bibliography of Bibliographies, III, 3429.  See Leandro Polverini's short biography in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, V. 98.

OCLC lists copies at the Library of Congress and the Folger Library.