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1525L7UBM2B5YKM6Florence 1525. 8vo. heirs of Filippo Giunta the elder Contemporary sheepskin parchment with remains of a gold-tooled spine label dark blue edges. 72 ll. Second Giunta edition of the "Corbaccio" which first appeared in 1487 and was first and similarly anonymously printed by Filippo Giunta in 1516: "una materiale ristampa di questa edizione fatta pagina a pagina e riga a riga" Gamba; "ces deux editions sont assez rares" Brunet. This bawdy satire supposedly based on a Florentine widow who turned down Boccaccio was as popular as it remains controversial for its scurrilous and misogynistic elements. The text is prefixed by a letter from Filippo Giuntas son Bernardo "agli amatori della lingua Toscana"; leaves 57ff. contain Boccaccios letter to Pino di Rossi.With the engraved bookplate of Lord Robert Spencer 1747-1831 British Whig politician on the front paste-down. The youngest son of Charles Spencer 3rd Duke of Marlborough the hero of the Seven Years War Lord Robert was the nephew of the politician John Spencer 5th paternal great grandfather of Diana Princess of Wales and brother of George Spencer the great-great-great grandfather of Sir Winston Churchill. Occasional light brown stains and slight traces of worming to the foot margins of the first two leaves but altogether in very good condition. A charming example of a rare and desirable edition.l Adams B2182; Bandini Juntarum typographiae annales II 199; Brunet I 1016; Edit 16 CNCE 6267; Gamba 203 note; Panzer VII 40f 219; Renouard Supplément p. XLIX no. 79; WorldCat 612050557; cf. Hayn/Gotendorf I 398 citing later Italian eds.; not in BMC STC Italian. unknown
1597798Amsterdam: Cornille Claesz 1597. Early French edition. <br /> <br /> A rare late-16th century French edition of Boccaccio’s Decameron one of the foundational works of Western literature and a cornerstone of Renaissance humanist storytelling. First written in the 14th century the Decameron comprises one hundred novellas told by ten young Florentines sheltering outside the city during the Black Death. The tales range from romantic and tragic to humorous erotic moral and political forming one of the most influential narrative sequences in European literary history. This 1597 Amsterdam printing uses the celebrated French translation of Antoine Le Maçon court favorite of Francis I and is a corrected and illustrated edition compared to earlier printings making it an important early Continental witness to the French reception of Boccaccio.<br /> <br /> This volume would be an exceptional addition for collectors of Renaissance literature early printing French editions of classics plague-era narratives and works pivotal in shaping Chaucer Shakespeare Molière Balzac and countless authors thereafter. Internally the text remains highly readable with its original period typeface early pagination woodcut ornaments and decorative printer’s devices at title and colophon. The closing leaf states FIN with an ornamental tailpiece consistent with 16th-century printing conventions. Includes the full cycle of tales including stories of love cleverness vice clergy satire virtue rewarded and the social wit that earned Boccaccio both admiration and censorship for centuries.<br /> <br /> Condition & Binding: Period full leather binding with raised bands and gilt spine ornamentation well-worn with rubbing and losses spine cracking and some leather deterioration see photos. Both boards present but detached/separated. Overall- poor. Cornille Claesz unknown
1542835Paris: Jean André bookseller to the University colophon: printed by Denis Janot 1542. French calf ca. 1760 sewn on 5 supports richly gold-tooled spine with a black morocco label in the 2nd of 6 compartments gold double-fillets on board edges blind triple fillets on boards gilt edges green silk ribbon marker curl-marbled endpapers similar to Wolfe 16 but with red blue orange green and white in that order. Folio 31.5 x 21.5 cm. With Jean Andrés woodcut flaming heart and caged bird device on the title-page and 15 woodcut illustrations plus 21 repeats in the text mostly 5.5 x 8 cm each in any of several 4-piece decorative borders including 8 foot pieces each with a different coat of arms; one illustration 13.5 x 8.5 cm with an 8-piece decorative border 5 woodcut decorated initials 2 series plus 1 repeat and many spaces with guide-letters for manuscript initials not filled in. Set in a roman type with shoulder notes and some verses in italic and a large roman for headings. Jean André issue of the extremely influential first French-language edition by Adrien Sevin of Boccaccio's first major work Il filocolo ca. 1336 a prose tale detailing the romantic love and adventures of Florio and Biancafiore based on the ca. 1160 French verse romance Floire et Blancheflor written at the request of Boccaccio's muse "Fiammetta". Boccaccio's version served as the model for Chaucer's more than fifty years later but it is a reworking rather than a translation so it was largely through the present printed translation that Il philocope a precursor of the better known Decameron became known north of the Alps. The fine woodcut illustrations first appeared in Janot's 1540 edition of Amadis de Gaula and after the Philocope also for several other romances. The borders used with them in these works are apparently older for two of the head borders are dated 1520. King François I of France who reigned from 1515 to 1547 greatly admired the Italian Renaissance and encouraged Italian influences in many aspects of French culture. The present book reflects that movement both as a model of French Renaissance prose under Italian influence and as an example of book production using new roman and italic types in the new style introduced under Italian influence in the 1530s.With the small letterpress bookplate and the armorial bookplate of Charles Bouchelet de Vendegies Comte d'Hust 1772- 1851 and a later bookplate of the Swiss collector Albert Natural. With a few mostly marginal defects and early repairs but with three repaired tears in the text one also in a woodcut but so skilfully repaired that it is barely visible in the woodcut. One of the repeated woodcuts has a small abrasion. Otherwise in good condition. The binding has restorations to the hinges and corners and the spine shows some superficial cracks and flaking but nearly all of the tooling remains clear. The very influential first French edition of Boccaccio's first major work with excellent woodcut illustrations.l BMC STC French p. 71 Janot issue; Brun Le livre français illustré p. 158; Mortimer French 105 Janot issue; Rawles Denis Janot . 1976 PhD thesis 164; Renouard Imprimeurs Parisiens 155; USTC 37796 & 92444 8 copies; see 37799 65503 & 92444 for the other issues; cf. Adams B2169-2171 Italian eds. Jean André, bookseller to the University (colophon: printed by Denis Janot), hardcover
157417322AB1574. Fiorenza Giunti 1574. 20 : 145 cm. 20 leaves 142 pages 8 leaves with 2 woddcut portraits and two woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum First edition rare. - From the library of M. Landau with his Exlibris. - The first pages at the edges a bit rubbed occasionally some foxing the last pages with some waterstains at the edges not affecting the text; binding a bit wrinkled edgas a bit damaged. hardcover
152770195senza luogo Londra senza note editoriali Tommaso Edlin 1527 ma 1725. In 4° piena pelle coeva con bei fregi nervi e titolo al dorso qualche minima traccia di consunzione d'uso ma comunque molto buona. Bella antiporta incisa B. Baron con leone unicorno e allegoria della Musa che accompagna il Poeta piccolo angelo indica il cielo frontespizio dell'originale del 1527 con piccola marca tipografica segue una carta con la dedicatoria di Paolo Rolli tavola con ritratto inciso del Boccaccio cc. 6 n.n. con la vita dell'A. scritta da Filippo Di Matteo Villani altra carta con la riproposta del frontespizio originale che al retro propone i dati editoriali effettivi cc. 284. In fine sono poste 7 cc. non numerate con i "Nomi dè Signori sottoscriventi" e "Tavola sopra il libro chiamato Decameron cognominato Principe Galeotto ." seguono ancora 49 cc. con le Osservazioni dell'editore che provocarono aspre censure del Buonamici. Esemplare in ottimo stato di conservazione ad ampi margini tagli rossi; curiosa etichetta coeva in carta posiziona questo volume fra quelli "Proibiti". Gamba 186. Bacchi della Lega pag 49 senza luogo (Londra), senza note editoriali (Tommaso Edlin) unknown
152011556Jehan & Gourmont o. J. 1520 1520. priv. Einband . 4°.117s-. fachmännisch Restauriert einige Seiten mit geringem Textverlust sonst in gutem Zustand AZB7LS4 HC Jehan & Gourmont, o. J., (1520), unknown
1547008609Venetia: Venice: Pietro dei Nicolini da Sabbio 1547. This is an original edition published in the year 1547.Collation 264216 i.e 4321pp woodcut decorative capital's throughout. Recently bound in full antiquarian calf blind flat bands leather title label ruled blind lines on boards. Slight crease line along edge of spine. Binding in very good clean firm condition with strong hinge joints. Internally no loose pages title page slightly dusty very small nick on margin first few pages with light stain to extreme margin otherwise text in remarkably clean condition throughout. A very nice copy in a very good attractive binding.F. Full Calf. Very Good. Small 8vo. Venice: Pietro dei Nicolini da Sabbio, Hardcover
1569746Paris: Morel 1569. Hardcover. Fair. The last Italian novel that Boccaccio prepared Il Corbaccio The Crow; around this time 1354-55 a.d. and after Boccaccio primarily focused on Latin works. This copy is a 1569 edition in the original Italian but printed in France by Morel but Morel Italianized his name to appeal to Italians on the title page. This novel finds some disfavor with modern readers. In this work a man is being rebutted by a widow but upon falling asleep her dead husband visits him and confides in him all the ways she's best left alone. In concert the sleeping man and the dead man decide to write this work warning young men of the deceits of some women. The work has since been dubbed ""misogynistic"" despite at almost the same time Boccaccio preparing his Latin work recording a selection of noble women De Claris Mulieribus. Other's claim that surely Boccaccio must have been jilted by a widow to write such a scathing work. About Boccaccio - Giovanni Boccaccio 1313 1375 was an Italian writer poet correspondent of Petrarch and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as ""the Certaldese"" and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Some scholars including Vittore Branca define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres making them converge in original works thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism. His most notable work is The Decameron. About the Printer from the website Printing in France - ""In 1549 Morel decided like many before him to get involved in the book trade. He became a proof-reader for Charlotte Guillard d. 1557 one of the famous woman printers of sixteenth-century Paris. In 1557 Morel decided to become a printer himself following the death of Charlotte Guillard in the same year. By 1570 Fédéric I Morel was one of the most prestigious printers in Paris. It is thus not surprising to see him being appointed royal printer on 4 March 1571 following the move by his wifes cousin Robert II Estienne to Geneva."" Provenance - Ex-libris plate of George Benson Weston a Harvard and Columbia graduate who edited a work on Italian literature. Also his inscription stating that he bought the book in Naples in 1904. Also the ticket of the Naples bookseller F. Casella established 1852. Bibliographic Details - Universal Short Title Catalogue USTC number 130039 found in many of the world's best libraries. Pettegree Walsby and Wilkinson - 58272 Physical Attributes - Measures approx. 11 x 17 x 1.75 cm. Signed in 8 octavo. Hardcover. Marbled paper covering pasteboards and a leather spine. Spine broken into six compartments by five gilt fillet lines title in gilt in one compartment five compartments with a blind tool roll of circles and palm fronds making the top and bottom border. Edges sprinkled brown. Pages - xvi 174 all numbered pages present but missing one blank leaf. Collation - A-G8 H7 I-L8 missing H8 a blank leaf that went between two sections and was not included in the numbering which is perhaps why it was removed Condition - This copy missing one blank leaf which would be the 8th leaf in the H gathering between two sections. Binding with some wear at edges corners and spine. Bookseller ticket and ex libris of George Beson Weston on pastedown. Blank unnumbered endpapers stating Gamba 205 and that Weston purchased the book Naples July 5 1904. Some toning and foxing throughout. Occasional thumb. Title page with an old manuscript provenance inscription under the title. A manuscript note in the fore-edge margin of page 111. Morel
1554ST19091London: Iohn Wayland at the signe of the Sunne oueragainst the Conduite in Flete-strete. Cum priuilegio per septennium 1554 or 1555. Third or Fourth Edition of the First English Translation of "De Casibus Illustrium Virorum. 340 x 220 mm. 13 1/4 x 8 3/4". 9 p.l. clxiii xxxvi xxxv-xxxvii 1 leaves complete including "A Memorial of such Princes" leaf often lacking at the end; collates as ESTC. Translated from the French version of Laurent de Premierfait by John Lydgate. <br/> Attractive 19th century honey-brown morocco by Francis Bedford stamp-signed on front turn-in covers gilt with French fillet frame oblique bouquets at corners raised bands spine compartments with central fleuron framed by geometrical compartments filled with floral tooling gilt lettering gilt-rolled turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Title page and Gg4 recto title page of a suppressed supplement dealing with English notables with woodcut title border the top compartment with the Royal Arms termini at sides the pedestal at base with a tablet showing one boy waking another with the motto "Arise for it is day" McKerrow & Ferguson 76a A4 recto with woodcut depicting the Creation of Eve flanked by terminal side-pieces woodcut historiated and floral initials throughout. Printed in black letter. Front pastedown with engraved bookplate of Christopher William Beaumont Pease; rear pastedown with bookplates of John William Pease and Lord Wardington. Chrzanowski 1555b; Pforzheimer 73; Luborsky & Ingram 3178; STC 3178; ESTC S107087. Spine somewhat sunned and dulled extremities very lightly rubbed boards with a couple of faint scratches but the once very handsome binding still attractive. Title leaf and final leaf extended at foot first few and last couple of leaves excluding title and final leaf with small minor repair at upper corner probably pressed and perhaps lightly washed at the time of binding isolated trivial stains but the text still surprisingly fresh remarkably clean and entirely smooth.<br/> <br/> This is a desirable copy of an important 16th century translation of Boccaccio's study of the vicissitudes of fortune prepared by John Lydgate a poet much influenced by Chaucer. Educated in the Benedictine monastery where he eventually served as prior Lydgate ca. 1370 - 1449/50 was a respected poet whose works DNB tells us "bear the mark of a pious and learned mind." And an indication of his importance is reflected in Chrzanowski's statement that "well into the 16th century the premier poets of England were considered to be Geoffrey Chaucer John Gower and Lydgate." Undertaken ca. 1431 at the request of the duke of Gloucester the 36365 lines here divided into nine books required a massive effort that took until 1438 or 1439 to complete. In the text a parade of notable historical figures pass before "Bochas" Boccaccio telling of the turns of fate that brought their careers and reputations crashing down from a pinnacle. According to DNB Lydgate's interpretation of the work "urges the traditional doctrines of moderation the avoidance of pride and the pursuit of virtue and demonstrates the horror of discord and strife between kinsfolk. This advice though couched in general terms was highly relevant to contemporary princes." This relevance led to popularity: more than 30 manuscripts of the work survive and it was printed previously in 1494 and in 1527. The final leaf here Gg4 contains the title page for "A Memorial of Such Princes as since the Tyme of King Richard the Seconde Haue Been Unfortunate in the Realme of England" intended for issue with "Fall of Princes" but suppressed by Queen Mary. It was finally published as the famous "Mirrour for the Magistrates" in 1559 after Elizabeth I had ascended the throne. The binding here is by the eminent West End bindery of Francis Bedford d. 1883 and was owned by three generations of the Wardington family who created one of the finest private libraries in England. It contains the bookplates of Northumberland banker John William Beaumont Pease 1869-1950 who began the collection; a grandson Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease 2nd Baron Wardington 1924-2005 who was successively Chairman Vice-President and then President of the Friends of the British Library; and a great-grandson the Hon. Christopher William Beaumont Pease b. 1970. The Wardington sales at Sotheby's in London were major bibliophilic events in 2005 and 2006. The very expert extension at the bottoms of the title leaf and the rare final leaf would seem to suggest that these come from another copy the leaves are not facsimiles. In any case every recent copy sold at auction according to RBH lacked one or both of these leaves or had other leaves supplied. This fact plus the fine state of preservation of our copy and its distinguished provenance surely are more than enough to compensate for the volume's one appreciable shortcoming. Iohn Wayland, at the signe of the Sunne oueragainst the Conduite in Flete-strete. Cum priuilegio per septennium unknown
