Le rime del Petrarca / brevemente eposte per Lodovico Castelvetro ...
Petrarch, (Francesco Petrarca) (1304-1374)
Category
Books
Date
1756
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3029361
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., [3] leaves of plates : ill., geneal. table, cuts ; 4to. Bound uniformly and shelved with Dante’s Works, 1757-8. Pencil on vol. 1 free endpaper verso: 562/2. Pencil note on vol. 1 flyleaf in an eighteenth-century hand: "Carta Gn [i.e. Carta Granda] 2 vol. 3:3:0". Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled (cat’s paw) calf over boards on five raised cords; gilt spine tooling; olive-green and black spine labels, gilt lettered: Rime dei Petrarca / Tom I [-II]; gilt rolls on covers, board edges and turn-ins; yellow painted edges; marbled endpapers; red silk bookmarks.
Makers and roles
Petrarch, (Francesco Petrarca) (1304-1374), author Lodovico Castelvetro (1505-1571), editor