Quarto. [14], 583pp, [1]. Title in red and black. With a half-title and three engraved plates of artists monograms. Contemporary gilt-ruled vellum, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece.

The foremost work of the art historian Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi (1660-1727), first published in Bologna in 1704, the Pictorial Abecedario contains information on approximately 4,000 painters, sculptors and architects and is defined by the Dictionary of Art Historians as 'the most complete source of information on artists during the eighteenth century'.