[ARIOSTE (l')]. - Lot 17

Lot n° 17
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[ARIOSTE (l')]. - Lot 17
[ARIOSTE (l')]. Orlando fvrioso [...] ornato di varie figvre con alcvne stanze [...]. -- Cinqve Canti di vn nvovo Libro [...] i qvali segvono la materia del fvriose [...]. --- Espositione di Tutti i vocaboli, et lvoghi difficili, che nel libro si trouano [...]. In Vinegia, Appresso Gabriel Giolito, de Ferrari e Fratelli, 1551. 3 titles in a large volume in-8° (150 x 227 mm), brown morocco, boards entirely decorated with gilt and mosaic scrolls, diamond pattern in the center surrounding a repeated supra-libris, smooth spine decorated, gilt and chased edges, traces of lakes (period binding). A fine copy. Text on two columns in italics. Contains, in the third part, a text of 30 leaves entitled : " Espositione di tutti i vocaboli e luoghi difficili, que nel libro si tovano ". - 264 ff., -- 31 + [I] ff. (blank) & --- [XXX] ff. numbered - A-Z8, AA-KK8, -- AAA-DDD8 & --- *8, **8, ***8 & ****6. A fully ornamented title-frontispiece; wood-engraved lettering, head-of-chapter vignettes and endpapers, including a portrait of the author on verso of the third title; publisher's typographical marks on titles. Manuscript bookplate of Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester, on the title. Spine rebound and corners restored, but a VERY GOOD EXAMPLE in OLD leather with a gilt supra-libris in the name of "Anne/Seguier" in the center of the boards. This binding can be compared to those of the workshop of Claude de Picques.
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