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Manuzio, Aldo II. Eleganze, insieme con la copia, della lingua toscana e latina, scielte da Aldo Manutio. Venice: [Paolo Manuzio], 1558 The Leigh family library copy. The Leigh family of Adlestrop descended from Sir Thomas Leigh (1504–1571), a merchant and Lord Mayor of London during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. His descendants comprised several key members of the English aristocracy, including Jane Austen. Stoneleigh Abbey was used after 1839 by Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh (1791-1850), and by William Henry Leigh, 2nd Baron Leigh (1824-1905).
8vo (143 x 93 mm). Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: †8 A-N8 n8 O-Y8: 192 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device to title- page, Y8 a blank. (Small repair to hole in title-page, lower margin of H7 repaired, O1-2 attached by adhesive at margin.) binding: Early nineteenth-century tan calf (146 x 100 mm), gilt fillets around sides, marbled endpapers and edges. (Rebacked.) provenance: Leigh, family library (Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire), armorial bookplate to pastedown. acquisition: Purchased from Alan G. Thomas, London, 1982. references: UCLA 533; Renouard 173/6; Edit16 28038; USTC 840343