ALDINE PRESS. CASTIGLIONE, BALDASSARE, Count . Il Libro del Cortegiano. Venice: Andreas Asulanus & heirs, April 1528. Folio, 303 x 206 mm. (11 7/8 x 8 1/8 in.), nineteenth-century calf, sides with palmette and leaf roll-tooled borders in gilt and blind, spine in six gold- and blind-tooled compartments, turn-ins with gilt neoclassic roll-tool, yellow endpapers, g.e., upper cover detached, slight scuffing to extremities, minor horizontal crease through most of text block, repaired tear to p4 catching 6 letters, traces of erased drawing (a copy of the anchor device) on last page . FIRST EDITION, roman type, woodcut anchor device on title and verso of last leaf. Adams C-924; PMM 59; Renouard Alde p. 102.3. Provenance : Giorgio Di Veroli, bookplate.
ALDINE PRESS. CASTIGLIONE, BALDASSARE, Count . Il Libro del Cortegiano. Venice: Andreas Asulanus & heirs, April 1528. Folio, 303 x 206 mm. (11 7/8 x 8 1/8 in.), nineteenth-century calf, sides with palmette and leaf roll-tooled borders in gilt and blind, spine in six gold- and blind-tooled compartments, turn-ins with gilt neoclassic roll-tool, yellow endpapers, g.e., upper cover detached, slight scuffing to extremities, minor horizontal crease through most of text block, repaired tear to p4 catching 6 letters, traces of erased drawing (a copy of the anchor device) on last page . FIRST EDITION, roman type, woodcut anchor device on title and verso of last leaf. Adams C-924; PMM 59; Renouard Alde p. 102.3. Provenance : Giorgio Di Veroli, bookplate.
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