Shelfmark
Gi.6.39
Author
Title
Opera nova de messer Antonio Vinciguerra secretario della Illustrissima Signoria di Venetia..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Venetijs : per Ioan. A.ntonium [sic] & fratres de Sabio., M D XXVII. Mense Martio. [1527]
Physical description
[72] p. ; 14 cm. (8vo)
Note
Imprint from colophon.
Note
Signatures: A-D⁸ E⁴.
Note
Engraved title page with printer's device showing a dolphin at sea under a starry sky.
Citation/references note
Adams, V833
Citation/references note
EDIT16, CNCE 32274
Citation/references note
USTC, 863463
Provenance
Armorial bookplate with motto "aquila non capit muscas", undated and without name, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Sir Hector Livingston Duff, engraving signed C. McLard 1930, on front flyleaf.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front flyleaf. Ms. signature "J. Burrell Grange Close November 1954 (Venice September 1957)".
Provenance
Bookseller's ms. note on front flyleaf: "from Foscarini Library".
Binding
18th-century armorial red morocco over pasteboards. Covers decorated with gilt roll to form a border; gilt centrepiece with crowned coat of arms with fleur de lys and lion; gilt roll on board edges. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt tools and titling over black label ("Vinci atir [sic]"). Textblock trimmed and gilted. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; five flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Does not present leaf E4.
Copy-specific note
Loose card dated 3.12.1954 suggesting that [Alan] Munby dated the binding and its stamp about 1750, signed A.C.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: DDk.6.18.
Subject
Satire, Italian Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Nicolini da Sabbio, Giovanni Antonio printer.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Duff, Hector Livingston, 1872 - 1954 former owner.
Added entry--name
Convitto nazionale Marco Foscarini former owner.
Added entry--place
Italy Venice.
Language code
ita
Identifier
B51245