Novella del grasso legnaiuolo . Florence: sotto il Corridore di Sua Altezza, 1576. Small 4° (193 x 131mm). Large woodcut on title of two people and a child visiting a carpenter in his workshop. (Top margins restored affecting first word of title and a few words of the text, repaired tear in A4 touches 3 lines without loss.) Red morocco by Lloyd, Wallis and Lloyd, gilt fillet round covers and spine, g.e. A very rare volumne of 6 leaves, telling the story of the trick, by means of changed identities, that the friends of Matteo, the fat carpenter, played on him because one evening he refused to go out and have dinner with them. Sander 3909 (note, & plate 627); Kristeller 236b.
Novella del grasso legnaiuolo . Florence: sotto il Corridore di Sua Altezza, 1576. Small 4° (193 x 131mm). Large woodcut on title of two people and a child visiting a carpenter in his workshop. (Top margins restored affecting first word of title and a few words of the text, repaired tear in A4 touches 3 lines without loss.) Red morocco by Lloyd, Wallis and Lloyd, gilt fillet round covers and spine, g.e. A very rare volumne of 6 leaves, telling the story of the trick, by means of changed identities, that the friends of Matteo, the fat carpenter, played on him because one evening he refused to go out and have dinner with them. Sander 3909 (note, & plate 627); Kristeller 236b.
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