ca. 1501-02, Lyonese counterfeit] PETRARCH. Le cose vulgari . Aldine 8° (144 x 93mm). Collation: a-y 8 z 4 (a1 r general title, a1 v divisional title Sonetti et canzone in vita di madonna Laura , n3 v divisional title Sonetti et canzoni in morte di madona Laura , t5 v divisional title Triomphi , u6 v blank, x5 v blank, y5 v blank, z4 blank); A 8 (index of first lines, 8 blank). 188 leaves. Unwatermarked paper. Lyons italic type 1:79, first state [Shaw IA, Icardo x1], copied from Griffo's Aldine italic 1:80. 29 lines. (Tiny rusthole in d3 affecting one letter.) BINDING: early-18th-century English red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. PROVENANCE: all pages ruled in red; 3rd Earl of Sunderland (1674-1722), shelf-mark, Puttick and Simpson sale 11th Nov. 1882 lot 9557 (then still bound with 1534 Sessa ed. of Leon Battista Alberti's Hecatomphila , 27 leaves), 2 gns. to Quaritch, who had a bookplate printed recording his Sunderland purchases; Prof. Angelo Marzorati (purchase inscription, Rome 1925) The first of two Lyonese counterfeit editions of the 1501 Aldine Petrarch, and with the Virgil and Juvenal one of the three earliest of all Aldine counterfeits. At least one Lyons publisher, probably Barthélemy Trot, immediately realised the commercial possibilities of Aldus's innovative series of portable volumes and began to pirate the Latin and Italian texts no less fast than the Aldine presses could turn them out, closely imitating both type and format but omitting prefaces and colophons. Shaw describes 66 Lyonese counterfeit editions -- more are known, including Murphy 771-72, 774, 762 -- and divides them typographically into six main groups. Balthasar de Gabiano may have printed the earliest group for Trot, but his name cannot be definitely linked with any of the counterfeits until 1506. Other printers involved in this piratical business were Jacques Myt (for Trot), Bernard Lescuyer (for Etienne de Basignana), and Guillaume Huyon (for himself, until as late as 1523). Already in March 1503 Aldus printed a full-sheet broadside warning against the Lyonese piracies, explaining how to distinguish them from the genuine editions (unique copy in Paris, BN, reproduced in H. Omont's Catalogue des livres imprimés par Alde Manuce reproduits en phototypie 1892). EXTREMELY RARE. D.J. Shaw, "The Lyons Counterfeit of Aldus's Italic Type. A new chronology" in: The Italian Book 1465-1800. Studies presented to Dennis E. Rhodes 1993, ed. D.V. Reidy, p. 117-33, no. 2; Baudrier VII, 15; In Praise p. 56; R 308:17
ca. 1501-02, Lyonese counterfeit] PETRARCH. Le cose vulgari . Aldine 8° (144 x 93mm). Collation: a-y 8 z 4 (a1 r general title, a1 v divisional title Sonetti et canzone in vita di madonna Laura , n3 v divisional title Sonetti et canzoni in morte di madona Laura , t5 v divisional title Triomphi , u6 v blank, x5 v blank, y5 v blank, z4 blank); A 8 (index of first lines, 8 blank). 188 leaves. Unwatermarked paper. Lyons italic type 1:79, first state [Shaw IA, Icardo x1], copied from Griffo's Aldine italic 1:80. 29 lines. (Tiny rusthole in d3 affecting one letter.) BINDING: early-18th-century English red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. PROVENANCE: all pages ruled in red; 3rd Earl of Sunderland (1674-1722), shelf-mark, Puttick and Simpson sale 11th Nov. 1882 lot 9557 (then still bound with 1534 Sessa ed. of Leon Battista Alberti's Hecatomphila , 27 leaves), 2 gns. to Quaritch, who had a bookplate printed recording his Sunderland purchases; Prof. Angelo Marzorati (purchase inscription, Rome 1925) The first of two Lyonese counterfeit editions of the 1501 Aldine Petrarch, and with the Virgil and Juvenal one of the three earliest of all Aldine counterfeits. At least one Lyons publisher, probably Barthélemy Trot, immediately realised the commercial possibilities of Aldus's innovative series of portable volumes and began to pirate the Latin and Italian texts no less fast than the Aldine presses could turn them out, closely imitating both type and format but omitting prefaces and colophons. Shaw describes 66 Lyonese counterfeit editions -- more are known, including Murphy 771-72, 774, 762 -- and divides them typographically into six main groups. Balthasar de Gabiano may have printed the earliest group for Trot, but his name cannot be definitely linked with any of the counterfeits until 1506. Other printers involved in this piratical business were Jacques Myt (for Trot), Bernard Lescuyer (for Etienne de Basignana), and Guillaume Huyon (for himself, until as late as 1523). Already in March 1503 Aldus printed a full-sheet broadside warning against the Lyonese piracies, explaining how to distinguish them from the genuine editions (unique copy in Paris, BN, reproduced in H. Omont's Catalogue des livres imprimés par Alde Manuce reproduits en phototypie 1892). EXTREMELY RARE. D.J. Shaw, "The Lyons Counterfeit of Aldus's Italic Type. A new chronology" in: The Italian Book 1465-1800. Studies presented to Dennis E. Rhodes 1993, ed. D.V. Reidy, p. 117-33, no. 2; Baudrier VII, 15; In Praise p. 56; R 308:17
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