Author: PETRARCA.
Title: Il Petrarcha. Con l'espositione d'Alessandro Vellutello. Di novo ristampato con le figure a i Triomphi, e con piu cose utili in varii luoghi aggiunte.
Description: Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1547. L-8vo. (21, 7x15cm). [viii], 216 leaves. With wood-engraved title-page, large and small woodcut initials, the urn with the ashes of Petrarca and Laura, fullpage map of the Vaucluse, 6 illustrations (each ca.6x7 cm.) in the Triomphi, and printer's device on last leaf, all wood-engraved. Laced vellum with morocco title-piece. (thin pencil underlinings and pencil annotations in French, in a neat hand, throughout; 19th-cent.annotation on second blank, head of spine slightly damaged) ¶ The third of seven Giolito editions (first 1544). Adams P.813. "The new style can be seen at its best in such books as Giolito's Petrarch of 1544. Giolito of Venice was the most influential Italian printer in the middle years of the century and he set a new fashion with his initials, borders and illustrations. These employed cross-hatching much more freely than hitherto and were copied by nearly all his Italian contemporaries. His initials, of which he had several sets cut, each contained a complete scene rather like the historiated initials of medieval manuscripts, and they seem to have been immensely popular." D.Bland, History of Book Illustration', p.139-140.
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Title: Il Petrarcha. Con l'espositione d'Alessandro Vellutello. Di novo ristampato con le figure a i Triomphi, e con piu cose utili in varii luoghi aggiunte.
Description: Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1547. L-8vo. (21, 7x15cm). [viii], 216 leaves. With wood-engraved title-page, large and small woodcut initials, the urn with the ashes of Petrarca and Laura, fullpage map of the Vaucluse, 6 illustrations (each ca.6x7 cm.) in the Triomphi, and printer's device on last leaf, all wood-engraved. Laced vellum with morocco title-piece. (thin pencil underlinings and pencil annotations in French, in a neat hand, throughout; 19th-cent.annotation on second blank, head of spine slightly damaged) ¶ The third of seven Giolito editions (first 1544). Adams P.813. "The new style can be seen at its best in such books as Giolito's Petrarch of 1544. Giolito of Venice was the most influential Italian printer in the middle years of the century and he set a new fashion with his initials, borders and illustrations. These employed cross-hatching much more freely than hitherto and were copied by nearly all his Italian contemporaries. His initials, of which he had several sets cut, each contained a complete scene rather like the historiated initials of medieval manuscripts, and they seem to have been immensely popular." D.Bland, History of Book Illustration', p.139-140.
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Price: EUR 2250.00 = appr. US$ 2445.41 Seller: Antiquariaat Brinkman
- Book number: 132780
- Book number: 132780
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