Bembo, Delle rime, Venice, 1548, eighteenth-century mottled calf, blue-paper copy
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1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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BEMBO, PIETRO. Delle rime di M. Pietro Bembo Terza e ultima impressione. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1548
A RARE DELUXE COPY PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER of the third edition of Bembo's Delle rime, revised by the author. This practice of printing deluxe copies on blue paper appears to have been initiated by Aldus Manutius, before seeing a wider adoption amongst Venetian printers, then spreading across Italy. Giolito was a renowned Venetian printer, specialising in the publication of works in the lingua volgare.
Lots 1596 and 1597 are two copies of the third and final edition of Bembo’s Rime printed in 1548 by Giolito, but they display small variations in line with Salvatore Bongi’s Annali di Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari (1890; p. 217).
The present lot, lot 1596, is variant I: the final two lines of the title on the title-page are not printed in italics; the dedication is to "M. Pietro Gradonico Gabriel Giolito", where lot 1597 has "Gradinico", and is dated "XII di Genaro", while the other variants have "Gennaro"; the last 7 leaves are not numbered; and the colophon is dated MDXLVII. This is believe♌d to be the first impression produced by Giolito in this year.
The following lot, lot 🌃1597, is an example of variant III.
Third edition, 12mo (131 x 76 mm). Italic type. collation: A-F12 (final 2 leaves blank): 72 leaves. Woodcut device on title repeated at colophon on F12v, woodcut portrait of the author on A3v, historiated opening ini💫tial. (Title-page bound close at inner margin, some slight staining, mostly marginal.)
binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf (138 x 81 mm). 🍌Spine gilt with red morocco labels, initials "F.C." in tail compartment, red edges, marbled endpapers.
provenance: "F.C." on spine, possibly Francesco Cancellieri (1751-1826), abbot, archaeologist, man of letters, librarian of Cardinal Antonelli. acquisition: Purchased in 1993 from Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Paris. references: Adams B-606; USTC 813411; Edit16 CNCE 5028
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