Tassoni (Alessandro) La secchia rapita. Poema eroicomico, woodcut printer’s device to title, lacking frontispiece, engraved author’s portrait, errata, 4 pp. publisher’s catalogue, leaves trimmed, occasional spotting, burn holes affecting signature to free endpaper, contemporary carta rustica, ink title to spine, hinges spitting, soiled, [Gamba 1994: “rara e stimatissima edizione”], 8vo, Giuseppe Bettinelli, 1739. *** Variant A issued without the plates by Menescardi e Filosi for the chants 3,4,5,6,9,11, including the biography of Tassoni by Ludovico Antonio Muratori. This edition is well known bacause of a querelle between the printers Soliani from Modena and Bettinelli. Soliani accused Bettinelli to have stolen the idea to print the work with commentary and notes (see Melzi, II, 392).
Tassoni (Alessandro) La secchia rapita. Poema eroicomico, woodcut printer’s device to title, lacking frontispiece, engraved author’s portrait, errata, 4 pp. publisher’s catalogue, leaves trimmed, occasional spotting, burn holes affecting signature to free endpaper, contemporary carta rustica, ink title to spine, hinges spitting, soiled, [Gamba 1994: “rara e stimatissima edizione”], 8vo, Giuseppe Bettinelli, 1739. *** Variant A issued without the plates by Menescardi e Filosi for the chants 3,4,5,6,9,11, including the biography of Tassoni by Ludovico Antonio Muratori. This edition is well known bacause of a querelle between the printers Soliani from Modena and Bettinelli. Soliani accused Bettinelli to have stolen the idea to print the work with commentary and notes (see Melzi, II, 392).
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