Accession number:
PML 20460.1
Published:
Impresso in Vinegia : Nelle case delli heredi d'Aldo Romano, et Andrea socero, nel'anno M.D.XXXIIII [1534].
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Description:
91, [1] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Title from title page, leaf 1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf 91v: Impresso in Vinegia nelle case delli heredi d'Aldo Romano, et Andrea Socero, nel'anno M.D.XXXIIII.
Signatures: A-L⁸, M⁴.
Printer's device on title page (leaf 1r) and final verso (leaf [92]v).
Reprint of the Aldine 1514 edition, with the same preface by Aldus.
Often bound with Sannazaro, Sonneti e canzoni (July 1534).
Binding:
16th-century French gilt-tooled brown morocco, based on Italian models, for Jean Grolier. With gilt-tooled title: "Arcadia del/ Sannazaro / Sonetti e/ Canzoni/ del ditto" and "Io. Grolierii et amicorum" (front board) and Grolier's motto: "Portio mea do/mine sit in/ terra vi/venti/vm" (rear board). Repairs to leather/tooling on upper cover.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Initials and printer's marks colored in gold.
Provenance:
Jean Grolier (1479-1565), binding with mottos: "Io. Grolierii et amicorum" and "Portio mea domine sit in terra viventium" stamped on covers, probably from his second library, after 1538; Méry de Vic (d. 1622), one of the inheritors of Grolier's library (about 3000 volumes), through inheritance to Dominique de Vic (d. 1662), inscription (title page), sold by auction, Paris, 1676; John Dent (1760-1826), signature, 1825 (front endleaf 2 recto), sale, Evans (London), 29 March 1827, lot 412 for £16.0.0 to Clarke; William Beckford (1760-1844), inherited by his daughter: Susan Euphemia Beckford Hamilton (1786-1859) and son-in-law Alexander Douglas Hamilton (1767-1852), 10th Duke of Hamilton, Hamilton Palace Library and Beckford Library sale, Sotheby's, part 3, 2 July 1883, lot 1730, for £125 to Quaritch; Morgand & Fatout, cat. VI, p. 794, no. 4447; Edouard Rahir, 1904; [Pierpont Morgan, 1905 -- noted by Belle Greene on front endleaf in provenance trail, perhaps a gift to Mrs. Hollins, a close friend of Morgan's]; Evelina Hollins (1854-1938), London, 1907, signature (front endleaf 2 recto, and noted by Belle Greene: Mrs. H.B. Hollins, NY, 1906); Anderson Auction Co. sale, 17 Feb. 1919, lot 886; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased in 1919.
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