[Le cose vulgari di Messer Francesco Petrarca], first Aldine edition, with the frequently missing 7-page address and errata at end ("Aldo a gli lettori") but lacking title, following leaf repaired with loss of one third of text, occasional dampstaining and browning, leaf Ai of index remargined (with loss of signature mark), one other repair in inner margin, without the 2 blank leaves z4 and A8, some early ink marginalia and underlining, manuscript page numbers added in lower corners (some cropped by binder), leaf H7 (containing the attack on Rome as the new Babylon), some sentences lightly crossed through by a censor (resulting in flaw with loss of a few letters), misbound after H8 and possibly from another copy, later vellum, lacking spine label [Adams P787; Mortimer 371; Renouard pp.28-29], 8vo (149 x 93mm.), [colophon:] Venice, Aldus, July 1501
[Le cose vulgari di Messer Francesco Petrarca], first Aldine edition, with the frequently missing 7-page address and errata at end ("Aldo a gli lettori") but lacking title, following leaf repaired with loss of one third of text, occasional dampstaining and browning, leaf Ai of index remargined (with loss of signature mark), one other repair in inner margin, without the 2 blank leaves z4 and A8, some early ink marginalia and underlining, manuscript page numbers added in lower corners (some cropped by binder), leaf H7 (containing the attack on Rome as the new Babylon), some sentences lightly crossed through by a censor (resulting in flaw with loss of a few letters), misbound after H8 and possibly from another copy, later vellum, lacking spine label [Adams P787; Mortimer 371; Renouard pp.28-29], 8vo (149 x 93mm.), [colophon:] Venice, Aldus, July 1501
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