Auction Closed
October 18, 08:42 PM GMT
Estimate
300 - 600 USD
Lot Details
Description
Griffoli, Jacopo. Iacobi Grifoli Lucinianensis Orationes variae variis in locis habitae. Venice: [Paolo Manuzio], 1557
For identification of the press, see Rhodes, who concludes: "The printer of the Grifol💟us seems to be undoubtedly Paolo Manuzio."
4to (210 x 145 mm). Roman type, 26 lines plus headline. collation: A-S4 T2 (S1 a cancel): 74 leaves. Printer’s ornaments, historiated initials, early annotationᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚs in iꩵnk. (Scattered foxing.)
binding: Modꦿern crꦐeam paper-covered boards (215 x 160 mm).
provenance: Unidentified owner(s), series of numbers in ink on title-page, underlining and marginalia. acquisition: Purchased from Leo S. Olschki, Florence, 1972. references: UCLA 522; Renouard 172/12; Edit1﷽6ꦕ 21777; USTC 834605; Dennis
E. Rhodes, Silent Printers: Anonymous Printing at Venice in the Sixteenth Century (London 1995), p. 120 no. G22