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Venice, Bartolomeo Zanni, 5 August 1510. In 2°, 295 x 210 mm. 125 numbered leaves, text on 2 columns in Gothic character, above the title elegant and famous vignette with two sections reverse copy of the one that adorns the IV Day in the edition of 20 June 1492, this same engraving is then repeated throughout the edition at the opening of each Day, in the text 97 cartoons of which many are repeated but most are original, in some there are monograms b, F, i and they are borrowed from edition of Tito Livio of 1493 and other editions, small ornate initials on a black background, title page and first 4 leaves heavily damaged and restored, the first 40 leaves have humidity marks and various restorations with losses also compensated in pen, the rest of the copy It is perfect and has large margins, modern binding in full amaranth leather with gold title on green gusset. Cartouche inside the pastedown, with bibliographical indications, by a nineteenth-century hand; duplicate from the British Museum [British Library] as indicated by the colphon stamp: "Museum Britannicum Duplicate for sale 1769."
Specialist Notes
Essling, 644; Olschki Choix, V 5558.
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