Contile, Luca. Ragionamento di Luca Contile sopra la proprietà delle imprese con le particolari de gli Academici affidati et con le interpretationi et croniche. Pavia: (Girolamo Bartoli), 1574
First edition. A tall copy with some deckle edges. The final quire was added later, so the previously final leaf Qq4 was excised. A few other leaves were sometimes cancelled, in this copy leaves S1-2, Aa4, Bb3, Cc1, Hh4 and Mm4 appear to be cancels.
For a copy of the issue without quire R, see lot 493.
Folio (349 x 230 mm). Roman type, 54 lines plus headline. collation: *6 A-Z4 Aa-Pp4 Qq4(-Qq4) Rr8: 167 leaves. Engraved title-page, woodcut initials, engraved illustrations (one full-page), woodcut printer's device above colophon. (Title-page somewhat soiled, occasional staining throughout, quire Gg browned, occasional offsetting, repaired tear in Cc1, a few small wormholes towards end.)
binding: Contemporary vellum (345 x 235 mm), holes from two pairs of ties. Modern buckram drop-backed box. (Binding crinkled and somewhat worn, spine slightly torn with old repairs at ends, front hinge repaired.)
provenance: W.D. Worthington, bookplate — Kerr & Richardson, Glasgow, bookseller's label at end. acquisition: Purchased in 1990 from Thomas Taylor references: Edit16 13187; Landwehr, Romanic Emblem Books 233; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 136
Contile, Luca. Ragionamento di Luca Contile sopra la proprietà delle imprese con le particolari de gli Academici affidati et con le interpretationi et croniche. Pavia: (Girolamo Bartoli), 1574
First edition. A tall copy with some deckle edges. The final quire was added later, so the previously final leaf Qq4 was excised. A few other leaves were sometimes cancelled, in this copy leaves S1-2, Aa4, Bb3, Cc1, Hh4 and Mm4 appear to be cancels.
For a copy of the issue without quire R, see lot 493.
Folio (349 x 230 mm). Roman type, 54 lines plus headline. collation: *6 A-Z4 Aa-Pp4 Qq4(-Qq4) Rr8: 167 leaves. Engraved title-page, woodcut initials, engraved illustrations (one full-page), woodcut printer's device above colophon. (Title-page somewhat soiled, occasional staining throughout, quire Gg browned, occasional offsetting, repaired tear in Cc1, a few small wormholes towards end.)
binding: Contemporary vellum (345 x 235 mm), holes from two pairs of ties. Modern buckram drop-backed box. (Binding crinkled and somewhat worn, spine slightly torn with old repairs at ends, front hinge repaired.)
provenance: W.D. Worthington, bookplate — Kerr & Richardson, Glasgow, bookseller's label at end. acquisition: Purchased in 1990 from Thomas Taylor references: Edit16 13187; Landwehr, Romanic Emblem Books 233; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 136
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