Vecellio, author of the Corona and Gioiello, also published a work on costume styled Degli Habiti Antichi et Moderni. In Venezia, 1590. Presso Damian Zenero. In the frontispiece is a salamander; on the last leaf a figure of Vesta. It has been reproduced by F. Didot, Paris.
He was not, as is often incorrectly stated, a relation, or even of the same family as Titian.
These are the earliest impressions we have had an opportunity of examining of Vecellio's works, which appear to have been widely circulated. The Bib. de l'Arsenal possesses two copies of the Corona (No. 11,955), from which we have described. In the other (No. 11,155 bis), Book 1 "ultima," Book 2 "quarta," are both dated 1593; and Book 3 "nuovamente ristampata la quarta volta," 1592. The plates all the same.
The Library of Rouen (No. 1,315) has a volume containing the Corona and Gioiello. Book 1 "quarta Imp.," Book 2 "ultima," both dated 1594; and Book 3 "quinta," 1593. The Gioiello, 1593.
In the Bodleian is a copy of the three books, date 1592; and another, date 1561, was in the possession of the late Mrs. Dennistoun of Dennistoun.
At Venice, in the Doge's Library, is a volume containing the three books of the Corona and the Gioiello, dated 1593.
Mrs. Stisted, Bagni di Lucca, also possesses the three books of the Corona, dated 1597, and the Gioiello, 1592.
At Bologna the Library has one volume, containing the first and second books only, evidently the original impressions. The titles are the same as the above, only to each is affixed, "Opera nuova e non più data in luce," and "Stampata per gli Hered' della Regina. 1591. An instantia di Cesare Vecellio, Stà in Frezzaria."
The same Library also possesses a volume, with the three books of the Corona, the first and third "ottava," the second "quarta," and the Gioiello, "nuovamente posto in luce." All "In Venetia appresso gli heredi di Cesare Vecellio, in Frezzaria. 1608."
At Vienna, in the new Museum for Art and Industry, is a copy of the five books, dated 1601.[[1335]]