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PETRARCA

Le cose vulgari di messer Francesco Petrarcha. Sonetti et canzone in vita di Madonna Laura - in morte di madonna Laura

[Lyon?
Barthélemy Trot
c. 1502]

€180 - €240

8vo, [188] ff, lacking h7 = f. 62 (les trois sonnets contre la cour de Rome), Copy at one time damaged at beginning and end with loss of some words, ff. mounted on stubs and (sometimes extensively esp. title-page) remargined. Modern blind-stamped calf over boards, gilt titled spine, all edges gilt, preserved in slipcase

Ref. Renouard 308:17 ; Fletcher. In praise of Aldus Manutius p. 56 ; Baudrier VII 15 ; Adams P-788 ; Brunet, t. IV, col. 543-544. First Lyonese counterfeit edition of the first pocket Petrarch. Aldus' July 1501-edition (Renouard 28:5) was the first book in the vernacular to have been printed in his new italic type

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