ARETINO, Pietro (1492-1556). Talanta comedia. Venice: Francesco Marcolini March 1542. 8° (150 x 102mm). Collation: A-K 8 L 4 . Woodcut printer's device on title, full-page woodcut portrait of Aretino on verso of final leaf. (Small repaired marginal tears in title and A2, paperfault in outer margin of D7 with loss of two characters.) Old limp marbled vellum (resewn, modern endpapers). Provenance : F.(?) Schmidt (inscription, dated 1801). FIRST EDITION, RARE. Aretino apparently completed this work in eight days. Cf. Gamba 1204.
ARETINO, Pietro (1492-1556). Talanta comedia. Venice: Francesco Marcolini March 1542. 8° (150 x 102mm). Collation: A-K 8 L 4 . Woodcut printer's device on title, full-page woodcut portrait of Aretino on verso of final leaf. (Small repaired marginal tears in title and A2, paperfault in outer margin of D7 with loss of two characters.) Old limp marbled vellum (resewn, modern endpapers). Provenance : F.(?) Schmidt (inscription, dated 1801). FIRST EDITION, RARE. Aretino apparently completed this work in eight days. Cf. Gamba 1204.
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