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Le dodici fatiche di Hercole, tratte da diversi autori, con il suo lament e morte. Florence: alle Scalee di Badia, [ca 1560].
4o (183 x 132 mm). Woodcut of Hercules on title-page and 14 woodcut illustrations in the text (including one repeat). (Closely cropped, some text cut into.) 19th-century quarter roan; cloth slipcase. Provenance: Pietro Ginori-Conti (bookplate); acquired from Carlo Alberto Chiesa, 1969.
One of at least four undated editions with the Scalee di Badia imprint, the Vershbow copy is described by Mortimer and corresponds closely to the Hofer copy. The illustration of Hercules on the title-page is a depiction of the statue which used to be in the Palazzo Farnese, and it and the text-illustrations are clearly contemporary with the date of printing, causing Fairfax Murray to consider his copy (now the Harvard copy) to be from the first edition and to opine that the woodcuts seem to have been by the same artist that illustrated some of Doni's works printed at Venice by Marcolini. Sander 3365; Mortimer Italian 154. Fact and Fantasy 38.
4o (183 x 132 mm). Woodcut of Hercules on title-page and 14 woodcut illustrations in the text (including one repeat). (Closely cropped, some text cut into.) 19th-century quarter roan; cloth slipcase. Provenance: Pietro Ginori-Conti (bookplate); acquired from Carlo Alberto Chiesa, 1969.
One of at least four undated editions with the Scalee di Badia imprint, the Vershbow copy is described by Mortimer and corresponds closely to the Hofer copy. The illustration of Hercules on the title-page is a depiction of the statue which used to be in the Palazzo Farnese, and it and the text-illustrations are clearly contemporary with the date of printing, causing Fairfax Murray to consider his copy (now the Harvard copy) to be from the first edition and to opine that the woodcuts seem to have been by the same artist that illustrated some of Doni's works printed at Venice by Marcolini. Sander 3365; Mortimer Italian 154. Fact and Fantasy 38.