Bembo (Pietro). Prose, nelle quali si ragione della volgar lingua, 1st edition, Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 1525, 95 leaves (of 96: lacking final blank Q6), signatures A-Q6 (-Q6), title to A1 verso, A1-2 slightly damp-stained, A1 with old discreet repair not affecting text, quire P misbound in order P2-5 P1-6, quires P-Q damp-stained, slightly chipped along edges and with a few old repairs (just extending into text in Q4), occasional toning and a few marks elsewhere, 19th-century cloth-backed patterned paper boards, surface-loss to spine, covers rubbed, folio (29 x 19 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. STC Italian p.81; not in Adams or Gamba. True first edition, with the following points to distinguish it from the near-identical counterfeit edition: paper watermarked with cardinal's hat surmouted by a cross; forme dimensions 20 x 12.3 cm; misprint 'altre' on G6 recto corrected by hand to 'arte'; colophon with 'le stampino' not 'la stampino'.
Bembo (Pietro). Prose, nelle quali si ragione della volgar lingua, 1st edition, Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 1525, 95 leaves (of 96: lacking final blank Q6), signatures A-Q6 (-Q6), title to A1 verso, A1-2 slightly damp-stained, A1 with old discreet repair not affecting text, quire P misbound in order P2-5 P1-6, quires P-Q damp-stained, slightly chipped along edges and with a few old repairs (just extending into text in Q4), occasional toning and a few marks elsewhere, 19th-century cloth-backed patterned paper boards, surface-loss to spine, covers rubbed, folio (29 x 19 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. STC Italian p.81; not in Adams or Gamba. True first edition, with the following points to distinguish it from the near-identical counterfeit edition: paper watermarked with cardinal's hat surmouted by a cross; forme dimensions 20 x 12.3 cm; misprint 'altre' on G6 recto corrected by hand to 'arte'; colophon with 'le stampino' not 'la stampino'.
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