Aldine Press -- Ordine de Cavalieri del Tosone [preface by Francesco Sansovino], [Venice], nell'Academia Venetiana, 1558, [825 copies], 4to, Roman type, with blank A4, engraved title vignette (title frail, soiled and restored at margins), 19th-century crimson morocco, gilt, sides with decorative borders in gilt and blind enclosing the Aldine anchor and dolphin device, gilt inner dentelles, green silk doublures (rubbed, more especially on spine, inner hinges strengthened), bookplates of Sir John H. Thorold. [Renouard, 'Accademia Veneziana' supplement, 11: 'La difficulté étoit, dira-t-on, d'avoir sous les yeux ce livre qui est fort rare'; not in Adams; not in BL]

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Aldine Press -- Ordine de Cavalieri del Tosone [preface by Francesco Sansovino], [Venice], nell'Academia Venetiana, 1558, [825 copies], 4to, Roman type, with blank A4, engraved title vignette (title frail, soiled and restored at margins), 19th-century crimson morocco, gilt, sides with decorative borders in gilt and blind enclosing the Aldine anchor and dolphin device, gilt inner dentelles, green silk doublures (rubbed, more especially on spine, inner hinges strengthened), bookplates of Sir John H. Thorold. [Renouard, 'Accademia Veneziana' supplement, 11: 'La difficulté étoit, dira-t-on, d'avoir sous les yeux ce livre qui est fort rare'; not in Adams; not in BL]

Lot Essay

'Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831) was truly a great collector. From 1824 till his death, he built up in an incredibly short time a beautiful collection of incunabula and Aldines' (De Ricci, 'English Collectors', p.160)

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