BINDING -- CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). Le Epistole famigliari , translated into Italian by Guido Loglio. Venice: Aldine press, 1545. 8° (149 x 94mm). Italic type. (Lacking A-C 8 and PP 1 0 , occasional staining.) CONTEMPORARY ROMAN BINDING BY NICCOLò FRANZESE: chestnut goatskin over thin pasteboard panelled in gilt and blind with shaped fillets, stars and fleurons, at centre 'Claudius' (front) 'De Valle' (back), spine with alternate single and double raised bands tooled with single or multiple diagon fillets, elaborate gilt and gauffered knotwork edges (missing fore-edge ties, some restorations, mainly at corners and spine). Provenance : Claudius de Valle (binding) -- Joannes Franciscus a Ventates de Terra Solis (17th-century inscription, one dated 1665) -- Bibliotheca Wireniana Solakraensis (stamp) -- Victor von Stedingk (bookplate; Lindberg, 'Victor von Stedingks bokbandssamling', Biblis , 103-187, pp. 138, 141). Bound by one of the most prominent and innovative Roman binders of his era. Among Niccolò's patrons were popes and noblemen; he was appointed the first binder to the Vatican Library in 1556 and is most known today for his work for the celebrated Grimaldi library distinguished by their Apollo and Pegasus medallions. Claudius de Valle is presumably the same man who was the subject of a portrait medallion by Pastorino da Siena (1508-92; cf. Hill, 'Some Medals by Pastorino da Siena', pp.108-12). Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus , p.82, Franzese 43. The Aldine press printed two editions in 1545; according to Renouard, this second, while less rare, is to be preferred as more correct. Adams C-1981; Ahmanson-Murphy 332; Renouard, Alde 132:9.
BINDING -- CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). Le Epistole famigliari , translated into Italian by Guido Loglio. Venice: Aldine press, 1545. 8° (149 x 94mm). Italic type. (Lacking A-C 8 and PP 1 0 , occasional staining.) CONTEMPORARY ROMAN BINDING BY NICCOLò FRANZESE: chestnut goatskin over thin pasteboard panelled in gilt and blind with shaped fillets, stars and fleurons, at centre 'Claudius' (front) 'De Valle' (back), spine with alternate single and double raised bands tooled with single or multiple diagon fillets, elaborate gilt and gauffered knotwork edges (missing fore-edge ties, some restorations, mainly at corners and spine). Provenance : Claudius de Valle (binding) -- Joannes Franciscus a Ventates de Terra Solis (17th-century inscription, one dated 1665) -- Bibliotheca Wireniana Solakraensis (stamp) -- Victor von Stedingk (bookplate; Lindberg, 'Victor von Stedingks bokbandssamling', Biblis , 103-187, pp. 138, 141). Bound by one of the most prominent and innovative Roman binders of his era. Among Niccolò's patrons were popes and noblemen; he was appointed the first binder to the Vatican Library in 1556 and is most known today for his work for the celebrated Grimaldi library distinguished by their Apollo and Pegasus medallions. Claudius de Valle is presumably the same man who was the subject of a portrait medallion by Pastorino da Siena (1508-92; cf. Hill, 'Some Medals by Pastorino da Siena', pp.108-12). Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus , p.82, Franzese 43. The Aldine press printed two editions in 1545; according to Renouard, this second, while less rare, is to be preferred as more correct. Adams C-1981; Ahmanson-Murphy 332; Renouard, Alde 132:9.
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