Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M

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Dolce, Giocasta, Venice, Heirs of Aldo, 1549, early limp vellum

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October 18, 08:42 PM GMT

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1,000 - 1,500 USD

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Dolce, Lodovico. Giocasta. Tragedia di m. Lodouico Dolce. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio, March 1549

 

First edition of Dolce’s tragedy. An adaptation of the work would later be the first Greek tragedy to be performed on the English stage.

 

8vo (155 x 106 mm). Roman and Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: A-G8: 56 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device to title- page and final verso. (Last quire splitting, loss to lower corner of F6, long closed tear to rear flyleaf, scattered foxing and browning.)

 

binding: Early limp vellum (150 x 105 mm), paper label laid down on upper cover, lettered in ink XIV | DOLCE | 1549. (Vellum worn and with some soiling.)

 

provenance: “di Barto Fozzi,” ownership inscription twice on title-page. acquisition: Purchased from House of El Dieff Inc., New York, 1972. references: UCLA 382; Renouard 146/11; Edit16 17338; USTC 827069

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