Author: HOBSON, Anthony.
Title: Apollo and Pegasus. An enquiry into the formation and dispersal of a renaissance library.
Description: Amsterdam, Gérard van Heusden, 1975. L-4to. xviii, 250 pp. With 50 ill.& 24 plates. Cloth w.dj. (paper-cutting with TLS-review by Howard Nixon added) - Nr. XXVII of 32 copies not for sale, signed by the author. ¶ Hobson proves that the enigmatic bookbindings with a device of Apollo and Pegasus, do not come from the Canevari or Farnese families, but were part of the library of the Genovese nobleman Giovanni Battista Grimaldi (ca.1524-ca.1612).

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