Petrarca (Francesco) Le Cose Vulgari di Messer Francesco Petrarcha, title and headlines in Roman type, text in italic, initial spaces with guide-letter, z4 and A8 blank, ruled throughout in red, some spotting, lightly browned, 18th century English red morocco, gilt, spine in compartments, lightly soiled, rubbed at extremities, [Adams P788; Ahmanson-Murphy 1101; Renouard, Alde, 308:17; EDIT 16 CNCE 57759], 8vo, [Lyon], no printer [?Barthélemy Trot], [c.1502]. ⁂ An attractive copy with an impeccable provenance of the first of two Lyonese counterfeit editions of the 1501 Petrarch. Likely published by Barthélemy Trot, who early on realised the commercial possibilities of Aldus's innovative series of portable volumes and began to pirate the texts soon after their publication, closely imitating both type and format. By March 1503 Aldus had printed a broadside warning against these Lyonese piracies. Provenance: The 3rd Earl of Sunderland (1674-1722) (shelf-mark); Puttick and Simpson sale 11th November, 1882, lot 9557 (then still bound with 1534 Sessa edition of Leon battista Alberti's Hectomphila)), sold to Quaritch for 2 guineas, who had an armorial bookplate printed to record his Sunderland purchases (present here); Prof. Angelo Marzorati (pencil purchase inscription, Rome, 1925).
Petrarca (Francesco) Le Cose Vulgari di Messer Francesco Petrarcha, title and headlines in Roman type, text in italic, initial spaces with guide-letter, z4 and A8 blank, ruled throughout in red, some spotting, lightly browned, 18th century English red morocco, gilt, spine in compartments, lightly soiled, rubbed at extremities, [Adams P788; Ahmanson-Murphy 1101; Renouard, Alde, 308:17; EDIT 16 CNCE 57759], 8vo, [Lyon], no printer [?Barthélemy Trot], [c.1502]. ⁂ An attractive copy with an impeccable provenance of the first of two Lyonese counterfeit editions of the 1501 Petrarch. Likely published by Barthélemy Trot, who early on realised the commercial possibilities of Aldus's innovative series of portable volumes and began to pirate the texts soon after their publication, closely imitating both type and format. By March 1503 Aldus had printed a broadside warning against these Lyonese piracies. Provenance: The 3rd Earl of Sunderland (1674-1722) (shelf-mark); Puttick and Simpson sale 11th November, 1882, lot 9557 (then still bound with 1534 Sessa edition of Leon battista Alberti's Hectomphila)), sold to Quaritch for 2 guineas, who had an armorial bookplate printed to record his Sunderland purchases (present here); Prof. Angelo Marzorati (pencil purchase inscription, Rome, 1925).
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