Bembo, Asolani, Venice, Aldus, 1515, later red morocco gilt

BEMBO, PIETRO

Gli Asolani. (Venice: in the house of the heirs of Aldus and Andrea Torresano, May 1515)

8vo (163 x 92mm.), woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank), fine early nineteenth-century straight-grained red morocco gilt, flat spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, occasional light foxing

The second Aldine edition, including Bembo's preface to Lucrezia Borgia.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 4988; Cataldi Palau 5; Renouard 1515/5