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Arcadia del Sannazaro.

Accession number
PML 19014
Creator
Sannazaro, Jacopo, 1458-1530. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxxdvbtc8XB7Dp3MPvGpP
Published
Impresso in Vinegia : Nelle case delli heredi d'Aldo Romano, et Andrea socero, nel'anno M.D.XXXIIII [1534].
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).
PML copy printed on vellum.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: M1 (replaced in manuscript) and M4 (final blank with Aldine device).
Description
91, [1] leaves ; 13.5 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Henry William Poor (1844-1915), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), his sale, Anderson Auction Co., part I, 23 Feb. 1909, lot 39 (stating that this volume was "discovered in Italy by the late Tessier") for $12.25; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from G.D. Smith, July 1909.
Binding
19th-century (English?) blue morocco.
Classification
Department