Castiglione, Baldassarre. Il libro del cortegiano del conte Baldessar Castiglione. Nuovamente ristampato. Venice: (sons of Aldo Manuzio), 1545
A reprint of the first edition of 1528, also in folio format; the other Aldine (and non-Aldine) editions were in smaller formats. The first edition was printed under the direction of Gian Francesco Torresano, this second folio edition by Paolo Manuzio.
Folio (285 x 196 mm). Roman type, 40 lines plus headline. collation: *4 a-o8 p6: 122 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title- page and final verso (otherwise blank). (D3 and final leaf with light staining.)
binding: Seventeenth-century green velvet binding (291 x 204 mm), paper label on spine with manuscript lettering, holes from two pairs of ties. (Spine and extremities rubbed with loss of velvet, upper joint cracked.)
provenance: Thomas Monck, early inscription at foot of title-page (presumably Sir Thomas Monck, 1570-1627) — Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716), inscription at head of title-page — Sir Thomas Phillipps, sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., Bibliotheca Phillippica, 28-29 November 1977, lot 5226, £300, to Bernard Quaritch. acquisition: Purchased at preceding sale via Bernard Quaritch. references: UCLA 328; Edit16 10073; Renouard 131/4
Castiglione, Baldassarre. Il libro del cortegiano del conte Baldessar Castiglione. Nuovamente ristampato. Venice: (sons of Aldo Manuzio), 1545
A reprint of the first edition of 1528, also in folio format; the other Aldine (and non-Aldine) editions were in smaller formats. The first edition was printed under the direction of Gian Francesco Torresano, this second folio edition by Paolo Manuzio.
Folio (285 x 196 mm). Roman type, 40 lines plus headline. collation: *4 a-o8 p6: 122 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title- page and final verso (otherwise blank). (D3 and final leaf with light staining.)
binding: Seventeenth-century green velvet binding (291 x 204 mm), paper label on spine with manuscript lettering, holes from two pairs of ties. (Spine and extremities rubbed with loss of velvet, upper joint cracked.)
provenance: Thomas Monck, early inscription at foot of title-page (presumably Sir Thomas Monck, 1570-1627) — Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716), inscription at head of title-page — Sir Thomas Phillipps, sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., Bibliotheca Phillippica, 28-29 November 1977, lot 5226, £300, to Bernard Quaritch. acquisition: Purchased at preceding sale via Bernard Quaritch. references: UCLA 328; Edit16 10073; Renouard 131/4
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