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ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS (1389-1459, Saint). Confessionale: Curam illius habe, in Italian. Florence: Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri, 23 May 1493.
Chancery 4° (196 x 131mm). Roman type, two woodcuts, woodcut initials white-on-black and lombard initials. (Last leaf repaired with partial loss of colophon, last two leaves soiled, some spotting.) Early 20th-century brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance: Harmsworth Trust (sale Sotheby's, 7 July 1947, lot 3058, £22 to Foyle) -- William Foyle (bookplate; sale Christie's London, 11 July 2000, lot 108).
The large title woodcut appeared in St. Augustine's Soliloquia (1491); the smaller woodcut on the final leaf of Antoninus confessing a penitent makes its first appearance here. HC 1214; BMC VI, 682; GW 2079; Goff A-785.
Chancery 4° (196 x 131mm). Roman type, two woodcuts, woodcut initials white-on-black and lombard initials. (Last leaf repaired with partial loss of colophon, last two leaves soiled, some spotting.) Early 20th-century brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance: Harmsworth Trust (sale Sotheby's, 7 July 1947, lot 3058, £22 to Foyle) -- William Foyle (bookplate; sale Christie's London, 11 July 2000, lot 108).
The large title woodcut appeared in St. Augustine's Soliloquia (1491); the smaller woodcut on the final leaf of Antoninus confessing a penitent makes its first appearance here. HC 1214; BMC VI, 682; GW 2079; Goff A-785.
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