Terracina, Rime, Venice, 1550, Roman tan morocco gilt by Niccolò Franzese, contemporary gift binding
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4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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TERRACINA, LAURA. Rime... Et nel fine una diceria d’amore, del Doni. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari & Brothers, 1550 [bound with:]
SANNAZARO, JACOPO. Sonetti et canzoni... novamente corretti, e ristampati. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1549 [and:]
D'ARAGONA, TULLIA. Rime... et di diversi a lei. Di novo ristampate et in piu luoghi corrette. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1549
THREE POETIC WORKS PUBLISHED BY GIOLITO, BOUND TOGETHER IN A CONTEMPORARY ROMAN GIFT BINDING BY FRANZESE. The mottos on the covers translate as "God makes [happen] what may bind together [in friendship]" and "If the gift is small and well desired [it] may be requested". Amongst these works is the third Giolito edition of Terracina's Rime (the first appeared in 1548). For another Franzese binding featuring a clasped hands tool (bound for Apollonio Filareto), see A. Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus, plate B.
3 works in one volume, 12mo (125 x 78 mm). Italic type. collation: (1) A-E12; (2) A-D12 E6; (3) A-C12 D4: 60 + 54 + 40 leaves. Title-page and final l𓆏eaf of each work with woodcut printer's device. (Some light spotting.)
binding: Contemporary Roman light brown morocco (129🅘 x 81 mm), by Niccolò Franzese (or his brother Pietro), richly gilt, double gilt fillets round sides, border of egg and dart moti🎶f, large solid leafy tools above and below motto on upper cover lettered in gold "DIO FAC[C]IA | CHE STRIN|NGA", and on lower cover "SEL DONO | E POCO I BV | ON VOLER | E SVPLISCE" above and below clasped hands, spine with 3 full bands and 4 false bands, edges gilt and gauffered.
provenance: Giovanni Gancia, Brighton & Paris, sale Delbergue-Cormont & Adolphe Labitte, Paris, 11-12 April 1872, lot 230—Thore Virgin (1886-1957), Bibliotheca Qvanforsiana—Rolf Wistrand (1912-1974)—Bassenge Auktion 1069, Berlin, 22 October 2015, lot 1099. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: (1) Edit16 CNCE 54728; USTC 858861; (2) Edit16 CNCE 26158; USTC 854680; (3) Edit16 CNCE 2288; USTC 810165; Hälsingborgs Museum, Utställning av 1400- och 1500-talstryck samt konstnärliga bokband ur Thore Virgins samling på Qvarnfors (Malmö 1944), p. 58, no. 98; Isak Gustaf Alfred Collijn, Bibliotheca Qvarnforsiana: ett urval av 1400-och 1500-talstryck samt konstnärliga bokband ur Thore Virgins samling på Qvarnfors (Uppsala 1947), p. 51, no. 206
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