Gi.7.30
Il pastor fido tragicomedia pastorale di Battista Guarini, dedicata al ser[enissi]mo D. Carlo Emanuele, duca di Savoia. &c. nelle reali nozze di S.A. con la ser[enissi]ma infante D. Caterina d'Austria. Con privilegi..
In Venetia, : Presso Gio. Battista Bonfadino., MDXC. [1590]
[276] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Signatures: A⁴ a² B-2L⁴.
Title-page vignette (printer's device with motto: "Cohibita surgo").
Includes head- and tail- pieces; decorated initials.
"Errori corsi nell'Opera." - on verso of leaf A3.
EDIT16, CNCE 21963
19th-century armorial bookplate of Reverend John Parker, with motto "sub libertate quietem", on front pastedown.
Ms. note on front pastedown: "Mary Wentworth".
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front flyleaf.
Armorial binding; calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with gilt-stamped centrepiece: an unidentified coat of arms with a crown and two lions. Spine rebacked with five raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets and titling over red label ("Il pastor fido"; "1590"). Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red. Endpapers of undecorated laid paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Former ECL shelfmark: DDl.6.5.
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Italy Venice.
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B51273