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Venice-Italy: Domenico Farri, 1569. HARDCOVER. very good. SIze: 132mm x 80mm. Appears A1-A12 are supplied from another copy. One leaf loose at Tavola where it says at top Tristano p.270. Original Coeval hardback binding with handwritten title on the smooth spine. Waterstaining throughout. The second edition was edited by Lodovico Dolce, following the first edition by Giolito de Ferrari in 1555. In addition, the first edition to come out of Farri's presses.

1910. England, [Douglas Cockerell / John William North], no year [c.1910]. Folio (34 cm wide x 42.5 cm high). 216 pages. Hardcover / Binding in full green morocco with lettering and Dante's head as bronze sculpture per inlet to front cover. Binding by Douglas Cockerell, signed "WHS", during his directorship of W.H.Smith & Son (1905 - 1914). The manuscript is on excellent paper, watermarked O.W.P. & A.C.L. [O.W. Paper & Arts Co. Ltd., established by English painter John William North (1842-1924) in 1895]. The binding rubbed and with some small damages, in need of some minor restoration but overall still very good. The interior, the paper and the artwork all in excellent condition besides one of the juxtaposed photographs (Filippina Lippo) removed from the manuscript with some residue of the photograph remaining and some of the photographs with some dogears and minimal discoloration. All the original artwork in spectacular and fresh condition. The manuscript is a spectacular find and the quality of… Read More