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Toscolano, Alessandro Paganini, 1521. In 24°. 54 full-page woodcuts (including the portrait of Merlin repeated), slight restorations on the outer margin of the first page, splendid binding in green morocco with gold title on the spine, gilt denticles on the back plates, gilt edges, ex libris of Henri Lambert and Don Tudor Wilkinson, evanescent noble stamp on the outer margin of the title page.
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A WONDERFUL COPY OF THE FIRST COMPLETE EDITION of Opus, as well < b style="background-color: hsl(var(--bs-white)); color: hsl(var(--bs-gray)); font-size: var(--bs-body-font-size) text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);">FIRST APPEARANCE OF THESE WONDERFUL WOODBLOCKS, STRONGLY CHARACTERIZED.
THE FOUNDING WORK OF THE NEW LITERARY GENRE so-called "MACARONIC", i.e. the literary practice comic that uses mixing Latin words and Italian words with Latin inflections. Rabelais placed this title in the imaginary library of San Vittore. The adventures of Baldus (a prince who grew up as a farmer) and his friends, the giant Fracasso, the rogue Cingar and the dog-man Falchetto, are told, who end up in a giant pumpkin where poets, philosophers and other chronic liars suffer. The last eight cantos are published here for the first time, as is his "Battle of Flies and Ants".
Elie, Alessandro dei Paganini in Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1967 99-103 no. 18; A. Nuovo, Alessandro Paganino, 51; Conditioner & Tinto, I Corsivi dei Paganini in Origini del cursive 79-101, 79 "independent models, never copied", 86 & fig. 24; Sander, Le Livre à figure italien 2832; Brunet II: 1317 "much sought after. very difficult to find".
THE FOUNDING WORK OF THE NEW LITERARY GENRE so-called "MACARONIC", i.e. the literary practice comic that uses mixing Latin words and Italian words with Latin inflections. Rabelais placed this title in the imaginary library of San Vittore. The adventures of Baldus (a prince who grew up as a farmer) and his friends, the giant Fracasso, the rogue Cingar and the dog-man Falchetto, are told, who end up in a giant pumpkin where poets, philosophers and other chronic liars suffer. The last eight cantos are published here for the first time, as is his "Battle of Flies and Ants".
Elie, Alessandro dei Paganini in Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1967 99-103 no. 18; A. Nuovo, Alessandro Paganino, 51; Conditioner & Tinto, I Corsivi dei Paganini in Origini del cursive 79-101, 79 "independent models, never copied", 86 & fig. 24; Sander, Le Livre à figure italien 2832; Brunet II: 1317 "much sought after. very difficult to find".
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