Il Petrarca [Sonetti e Canzoni], Doheny copy in Capé binding, 1533.

Petrarca (Francesco) Il Petrarca [Sonetti e Canzoni], edited by Paulus Manutius, Roman and primarily italic type, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of final f., initial spaces with guide-letter, z8, B5, C5 blank, title lightly browned, occasional spotting or finger-marking, a few small stains, brown crushed morocco, gilt, by Charles-François Capé and finished by Marius Michel Père, in the style of a mid-sixteenth century Parisian binding, covers with a wide border and handsome strap-work decoration made up of inlaid black morocco and gilt, spine in compartments, the second lettered and the others with a ?floral motif of inlaid black morocco and gilt, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., housed in a cloth chemise within a blue crushed morocco solander box, gilt, rubbed, [Adams P802; Ahmanson-Murphy 261; Renouard, Alde, 108:5; EDIT 16 27211], 8vo, [Venice], [Heirs of Aldus & Andrea Torresani, i.e. Paulus Manutius], [June, 1533]. ⁂ The Edwin B,. Holden-Estelle Doheny copy with a sumptuous binding by Capé. This is one of the first works to be printed by Paulus Manutius after a hiatus in printing following the death of Andrea Torresani in 1529. The work is dedicated by Manutius to the humanist scholar and bibliophile Giovanni Bonifacio, Duke of Oria.