Petrarca, Francesco IL PETRARCHA. (VENICE: ALDUS, AUGUST 1514) 8vo (151 x 88mm.), PRINTED ON VELLUM (goatskin), title enclosed within a purple ink banner, pen-and-ink illustration of a funerary urn with portraits of Petrarch and Laura at head of a leaf containing a sonnet (by Lodovico Domenichi) on the ashes of Petrarch and Laura (both taken from the 1543 Giolito edition by Vellutello), followed by 6 manuscript facsimile leaves, contemporary Italian illumination on n7 (start of Sonetti et canzoni in morte di Madonna Laura) with motifs of death (slightly rubbed), and on t1 (start of Triomphi, very worn), several 3-line gold initials on coloured grounds in the Triomphi, with blank leaf z8, eighteenth-century calf with double gilt fillet border, spine gilt in compartments, red edges, lacking 17 leaves (a2-7, of which a3-7 supplied in early manuscript facsimile, s7-8, a blank and the section title for Trionfi, and A8-B8, the extra poems and the errata), a few words on h8v slightly rubbed, m2-3 transposed, binding slightly rubbed
Petrarca, Francesco IL PETRARCHA. (VENICE: ALDUS, AUGUST 1514) 8vo (151 x 88mm.), PRINTED ON VELLUM (goatskin), title enclosed within a purple ink banner, pen-and-ink illustration of a funerary urn with portraits of Petrarch and Laura at head of a leaf containing a sonnet (by Lodovico Domenichi) on the ashes of Petrarch and Laura (both taken from the 1543 Giolito edition by Vellutello), followed by 6 manuscript facsimile leaves, contemporary Italian illumination on n7 (start of Sonetti et canzoni in morte di Madonna Laura) with motifs of death (slightly rubbed), and on t1 (start of Triomphi, very worn), several 3-line gold initials on coloured grounds in the Triomphi, with blank leaf z8, eighteenth-century calf with double gilt fillet border, spine gilt in compartments, red edges, lacking 17 leaves (a2-7, of which a3-7 supplied in early manuscript facsimile, s7-8, a blank and the section title for Trionfi, and A8-B8, the extra poems and the errata), a few words on h8v slightly rubbed, m2-3 transposed, binding slightly rubbed
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