De sonetti / di M. Benedetto Varchi, parte prima. Con priuilegio.
Benedetto Varchi (1503-1565)
Category
Books
Date
1555
Materials
Place of origin
Florence
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3167052
Summary
Bibliographic description
[18], 3-272, [24] p. ; 8vo. Provenance: manuscript inscription on titlepage in a sixteenth-century hand: bj byno peto[y] Esua Amity. Manuscript inscription on titlepage in a seventeenth-century hand: J Seli [rest cropped by later binding]. Armorial bookplate (small) on titlepage verso: John Lord Sommers Baron of Evesham [i.e. John, Lord Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf over boards on four raised cords, gilt spine tooling, eighteenth-century red spine label, double blind fillet on covers, red and brown sprinkled edges. Three stab sewing holes visible in gutter.
Makers and roles
Benedetto Varchi (1503-1565) , author