Lot 292
Catherine of Siena (Saint) Epistole devotissime, Aldus Manutius, Venice, 1500.
Hammer Price: £6,000
Description
Catherine of Siena (Saint) Epistole devotissime, Roman and italic type, full-page woodcut of St. Catherine surrounded by two angels holding an open book in one hand with italic type on both pages and a heart in the other, again with italic type, woodcut decorative and historiated initials, the colophon f. from another copy, first 2 ff. soiled, some staining, mostly light foxing and finger-marking, later blind-stamped calf, rebacked, preserving majority of original backstrip, rubbed, [not in Adams; Ahmanson-Murphy 36; Renouard, Alde, 23:2; BMC V, 562; Goff C-281; HC 4688; Sander 1821], folio, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], [September, 1500].
⁂ 'L'édition en belles lettres rondes de la plus grande beauté' (Renouard). The first Aldine and complete edition, preceded only by the 1492 Bologna edition, which contained only 31 letters out of 368. It includes for the first time Francesco Griffo's italic type for Aldus and is the first book printed by him in Italian.
Description
Catherine of Siena (Saint) Epistole devotissime, Roman and italic type, full-page woodcut of St. Catherine surrounded by two angels holding an open book in one hand with italic type on both pages and a heart in the other, again with italic type, woodcut decorative and historiated initials, the colophon f. from another copy, first 2 ff. soiled, some staining, mostly light foxing and finger-marking, later blind-stamped calf, rebacked, preserving majority of original backstrip, rubbed, [not in Adams; Ahmanson-Murphy 36; Renouard, Alde, 23:2; BMC V, 562; Goff C-281; HC 4688; Sander 1821], folio, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], [September, 1500].
⁂ 'L'édition en belles lettres rondes de la plus grande beauté' (Renouard). The first Aldine and complete edition, preceded only by the 1492 Bologna edition, which contained only 31 letters out of 368. It includes for the first time Francesco Griffo's italic type for Aldus and is the first book printed by him in Italian.
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