Dolce, Fabritia, Venice, Heirs of Aldo, 1549, nineteenth-century English red morocco, Syston Park copy

Dolce, Lodovico. Fabritia. Comedia di m. Lodouico Dolce. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio, 1549

First edition.

For further lots from the Syston Park library, see 721, 886, 893, 909, 910, 978 and 993.

8vo (147 x 98 mm). Roman and italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-G⁸ H⁴: 60 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page. (Stray spots, mild browning, one or two old stray ink stains, trimmed.)

binding: Nineteenth-century English red morocco (152 x 106 mm), covers with outer frame of repeated gilt wheatsheaf tool, anchor and dolphin stamped in gilt at center, spine with raised gilt bands in five compartments, second and fifth gilt- lettered, others with repeat gilt decoration, all edges gilt, lavender endpapers. (Spine darkened, trifle rubbed.)

provenance: Seventeenth-century inscription on title-page, "Josephus Picini Bassanenis" — Sir John Thorold, 9th Bt. (1734- 1815) — Sir John Hayford Thorold, 10th Bt. (1773-1831) — Sir John Henry Thorold, 12th Bt. (1842-1922), Syston Park, his sale, Sotheby's London, 12-19 December 1884, lot 721 — James Bain, London, purchased in previous sale — Wigan Public Library, purchase inscription of its librarian, Henry Tennyson Folkard (1850-1916), on initial blank. acquisition: Purchased from Bredford libri rari, Lugano, 2005. references: UCLA 383; Renouard 146/12; Edit16 17337; USTC 827068