Accession number
PML 151540
Creator
Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547.
Published
[In Firenze : Impresse per Lorenzo Torrentino, ad instantia di M. Carlo Gualteruzzi, 1549].
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
A few copies of this edition were issued with a regular t.p. (title on recto: Le prose del Bembo. [Medici arms] In Fiorenza, Appresso Lorenzo Torrentino stampator dvcale MDXLVIII. Con priuilegio di Papa Paolo III & Carlo v. Imp. & del Duca di Fiorenza: on verso: Delle prose di M. Pietro Bembo nelle qvali [etc.] divise in tre libri. Terza impressione) ; the dedicatory letter to "Cosimo de Medici duca di Firenze" printed in italics ; the lines of the caption of the first book divided differently and the letters of the same printed from partly larger, partly smaller type, and the last three pages blank.
Title printed on prelim. p. [2], prelim. p. [1] blank; imprint from colophon.
In this copy the dedicatory letter by R. Varchi to "Cosimo de Medici dvca di Firenze" is printed in roman type. The colophon leaf is lacking as issued and the last pages are in a setting different than PML 197717.
Includes index.
Errata: p. [225]-226.
Title printed on prelim. p. [2], prelim. p. [1] blank; imprint from colophon.
In this copy the dedicatory letter by R. Varchi to "Cosimo de Medici dvca di Firenze" is printed in roman type. The colophon leaf is lacking as issued and the last pages are in a setting different than PML 197717.
Includes index.
Errata: p. [225]-226.
Description
[8], 224, [49] pages ; 22 cm (4to)
Provenance
Thomas Merthyr (bookplate); Julia P. Wightman (bookplate)..
Binding
Contemporary black morocco Italian binding, tooled in blind and gilt to a panel design, with elaborate strapwork gauffered edges, the spine tooling and spine label possibly added in the eighteenth century.
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