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ALCIATUS, Andreas (1492-1550). Emblematum libellus. Venice: Aldus Manutius, June 1546.
8o (151 x 103 mm). Italic type, initial space with printed guide letters. 84 emblematic woodcuts, Aldine dolphin and anchor woodcut device on title and repeated on F8r. (Title with two tiny repairs.) Citron morocco gilt by Francis Bedford, edges gilt (light rubbing to joints). Provenance: acquired from Chiswick, 1968.
FIRST EDITION of the second series of Alciati's emblems, the first emblem book printed in Italy and the only 16th-century Italian edition of Alciati. The Emblematum libellus is the most extensively illustrated book of the Aldine press since the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, printed almost half a century earlier. Mortimer notes, that these new emblems were different from those "popularized by Chrestien Wechel in Paris in 1534, and the new emblems were quickly absorbed into the editions currently printed in France," with the fine woodcuts first copied in 1548 by Pierre Eskrich the first Rouillé edition (see lot 81). Adams A-602; Ahmanson-Murphy 314; Brunet I:147; Essling p. 673; Landwehr, Romantic 33; Mortimer Italian 14; Praz p. 249; Renouard pp.138-139; Sander 224.
8o (151 x 103 mm). Italic type, initial space with printed guide letters. 84 emblematic woodcuts, Aldine dolphin and anchor woodcut device on title and repeated on F8r. (Title with two tiny repairs.) Citron morocco gilt by Francis Bedford, edges gilt (light rubbing to joints). Provenance: acquired from Chiswick, 1968.
FIRST EDITION of the second series of Alciati's emblems, the first emblem book printed in Italy and the only 16th-century Italian edition of Alciati. The Emblematum libellus is the most extensively illustrated book of the Aldine press since the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, printed almost half a century earlier. Mortimer notes, that these new emblems were different from those "popularized by Chrestien Wechel in Paris in 1534, and the new emblems were quickly absorbed into the editions currently printed in France," with the fine woodcuts first copied in 1548 by Pierre Eskrich the first Rouillé edition (see lot 81). Adams A-602; Ahmanson-Murphy 314; Brunet I:147; Essling p. 673; Landwehr, Romantic 33; Mortimer Italian 14; Praz p. 249; Renouard pp.138-139; Sander 224.