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Toscolano, Alessandro Paganini, 1521. In 24th. 54 full-page woodcuts (including the repeated portrait of Merlin), slight restorations on the external margin of the first leaf, splendid binding in green morocco with gold title on the spine, golden dentils on the backplates, gilt cuts, ex libris by Henri Lambert and Don Tudor Wilkinson, evanescent noble stamp on the external margin of the title page.
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SPLENDID EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST COMPLETE EDITION of the Opus, as well as< 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 WOODBLOCK PRINTS, STRONGLY CHARACTERIZED.
THE FOUNDATIONAL WORK OF THE NEW LITERARY GENRE so-called "MACCHERONICO", or that literary practice comedian who uses to mix Latin words and Italian words with Latin inflections. Rabelais placed this title in the imaginary library of Saint Victor. 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; Balm & 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 FOUNDATIONAL WORK OF THE NEW LITERARY GENRE so-called "MACCHERONICO", or that literary practice comedian who uses to mix Latin words and Italian words with Latin inflections. Rabelais placed this title in the imaginary library of Saint Victor. 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; Balm & 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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