BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). Genealogiae deorum . - De montibus, silvis, fontibus... Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 23rd February 1494-95. Super-chancery 2 o (320 x 214 mm). Collation : a-t 8 u 1 0 . 162 leaves. 62 lines and headline, table in 3 columns. Gothic types 1:74, 2:130, 3:62, 4:92, 7:82, 8:102, 10:57, Roman type 5:80. Woodcut ornamental initials from two sets, 13 full-page woodcut genealogical trees, printer's mark. (Stains on a7, g5-6 affecting woodcuts, small closed marginal tear on u10, some worming at end catching letters, occasional mostly marginal dampstaining and spotting.) Vellum binding from a ?16th-century antiphonal, later morocco lettering-piece on spine. Provenance : marginalia in an early hand -- Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 November 1943) -- donated to SMS November 1943. Fourth edition of the full text, but the first to contain the full-page woodcut diagrams illustrating the genealogy of the pagan gods. The woodcuts were next used in a reprint of the Locatellus edition which appeared in 1497 printed by Manfredus de Bonellis. HC *3321; GW 4478; BMC V, 444 (IB. 22904); Essling 799; Sander 1077; Pr 5052; Goff B-753.
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). Genealogiae deorum . - De montibus, silvis, fontibus... Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 23rd February 1494-95. Super-chancery 2 o (320 x 214 mm). Collation : a-t 8 u 1 0 . 162 leaves. 62 lines and headline, table in 3 columns. Gothic types 1:74, 2:130, 3:62, 4:92, 7:82, 8:102, 10:57, Roman type 5:80. Woodcut ornamental initials from two sets, 13 full-page woodcut genealogical trees, printer's mark. (Stains on a7, g5-6 affecting woodcuts, small closed marginal tear on u10, some worming at end catching letters, occasional mostly marginal dampstaining and spotting.) Vellum binding from a ?16th-century antiphonal, later morocco lettering-piece on spine. Provenance : marginalia in an early hand -- Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 November 1943) -- donated to SMS November 1943. Fourth edition of the full text, but the first to contain the full-page woodcut diagrams illustrating the genealogy of the pagan gods. The woodcuts were next used in a reprint of the Locatellus edition which appeared in 1497 printed by Manfredus de Bonellis. HC *3321; GW 4478; BMC V, 444 (IB. 22904); Essling 799; Sander 1077; Pr 5052; Goff B-753.
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