La Commedia. Commentary by Cristoforo Landino (1424-1504); commendations by Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499). Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, 30 August 1481. Folio (420 x 273 mm). 323 (of 371) leaves. Text with commentary. 45–48 or 57–60 lines. Typ: 4:114R, 5:91R. 2- to 16-line initial spaces, most with printed guide-letter. 19th-century half sheep, some wear and staining. Lacks 48 leaves and illustrations, disbound, a few leaves shorter or remargined supplied from another copy. Provenance : Bibliotheca Casanatense (old ink stamp on a2). FIRST EDITION with Landino's commentary. A fragment of this monumental edition, this copy without the illustrations, but with some of the leaves with spaces that were left for engravings at the head of the cantos. The plan was too ambitious and many were never filled up. Some copies of the book have no engravings at all, others only two: those prefixed to Cantos 1 and 3, the first of which is most introduced on the lower margin of the tempting mutilation by the binder's shears. BMC VI, 628; BSB-Ink. D-9; GW 7966; Goff D-29; HC 5946.
La Commedia. Commentary by Cristoforo Landino (1424-1504); commendations by Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499). Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, 30 August 1481. Folio (420 x 273 mm). 323 (of 371) leaves. Text with commentary. 45–48 or 57–60 lines. Typ: 4:114R, 5:91R. 2- to 16-line initial spaces, most with printed guide-letter. 19th-century half sheep, some wear and staining. Lacks 48 leaves and illustrations, disbound, a few leaves shorter or remargined supplied from another copy. Provenance : Bibliotheca Casanatense (old ink stamp on a2). FIRST EDITION with Landino's commentary. A fragment of this monumental edition, this copy without the illustrations, but with some of the leaves with spaces that were left for engravings at the head of the cantos. The plan was too ambitious and many were never filled up. Some copies of the book have no engravings at all, others only two: those prefixed to Cantos 1 and 3, the first of which is most introduced on the lower margin of the tempting mutilation by the binder's shears. BMC VI, 628; BSB-Ink. D-9; GW 7966; Goff D-29; HC 5946.
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