Accession number:
PML 39670.1
Published:
[Florence] : [Societas Colubris (Compagnia del Drago, i.e. Antonio Tubini and Andrea Ghirlandi)], [approximately 1510].
Description:
[4] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 20.5 cm. (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1948.
Notes:
Title from leaf a1r.
Date from Bühler.
Printer's mark, leaf a4v.
Signatures: a⁴.
Woodcut within woodcut border on title page; printer's mark.
Only recorded copy.
Binding:
19th-century English blind-tooled straight-grained brown morocco over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Brown paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Provenance:
William Roscoe (1753-1831), bound 4 works together; his sale, Winstanley (Liverpool), 19 August 1816, lot 1054; Richard Heber (1773-1833); Bibliotheca Heberiana sale, Sotheby's, part IX, 11 April 1836, lot 2479; Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892), shelf mark: F.7 (front fly leaf), through inheritance to his son: George Lindsay Holford (1860-1926); Holford sale, Sotheby's, part II, 5 Dec. 1927, lot 679; unidentified Greek alphabet price code (front fly leaf); Giuseppe Martini (1870-1944), purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 7 Oct. 1935; H.P. Kraus, cat. 44 (1948), no. 169; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Kraus, 1948.
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