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PETRARCA, Francesco (1303-1374). De remediis fortunae. Edited by Nicolaus Lucarus. Cremona: Bernardinus de Misintis and Caesar Parmensis, 17 November 1492.
Super-chancery 2° (300 x 210mm). Collation: 24; a b8 c-z A B6 C8. 166 leaves. 44 lines. Type: 1:102R. 8-line woodcut capital C on a2., 5-line initial spaces with printed guide-letters, woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf. (Wormed in first and final leaves, u6 lacking small section of outer blank margin.) Modern brown morocco, tooled in blind, spine with black morocco lettering-piece tooled in gilt, morocco-backed box. Provenance: unidentified Latin inscription, in an Italian hand.
The third and last of the 15th-century editions of this text, a treatise on human happiness and unhappiness. The printers established the first press at Cremona, but are known to have printed only six or seven books. HC *12793; BMC VII, 956 (IB.30816); Goff P-409.
Super-chancery 2° (300 x 210mm). Collation: 24; a b8 c-z A B6 C8. 166 leaves. 44 lines. Type: 1:102R. 8-line woodcut capital C on a2., 5-line initial spaces with printed guide-letters, woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf. (Wormed in first and final leaves, u6 lacking small section of outer blank margin.) Modern brown morocco, tooled in blind, spine with black morocco lettering-piece tooled in gilt, morocco-backed box. Provenance: unidentified Latin inscription, in an Italian hand.
The third and last of the 15th-century editions of this text, a treatise on human happiness and unhappiness. The printers established the first press at Cremona, but are known to have printed only six or seven books. HC *12793; BMC VII, 956 (IB.30816); Goff P-409.