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FRACCO, Ambrosio Novidio. Sacrorum fastorum libri XII. Rome: Antonio Blado, May 18 1547.
4° (228 x 150mm). Title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf, woodcut portrait of the author, 15 illustrations, initials. (Some light worming to margins.) CONTEMPORARY BROWN MOROCCO BY MAESTRO LUIGI, the covers panelled in silver (oxidised) and blind, with central arabesque, the panels with 'stirrup', fleurons and leafy tools, spine with raised bands and four compartments ruled in blind, gilt and gauffered edges (spine neatly repaired at head and foot, three corners repaired).
FIRST EDITION. A handsome copy, bound by one of the foremost Roman binders of his time, of an important Blado imprint. The work describes in twelve cantos (in imitation of Ovid's Fasti) the feast days celebrated each month in contemporary Rome, and traces their parallels in ancient times in order to prove the continuity of many Roman customs in Christian guise. The illustrations heading each canto are tripartite: the centre showing the principal saint for the month, on the left the chief Christian festival and on the right its ancient equivalent. Mortimer, Harvard Italian 198; Sander 5019.
4° (228 x 150mm). Title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf, woodcut portrait of the author, 15 illustrations, initials. (Some light worming to margins.) CONTEMPORARY BROWN MOROCCO BY MAESTRO LUIGI, the covers panelled in silver (oxidised) and blind, with central arabesque, the panels with 'stirrup', fleurons and leafy tools, spine with raised bands and four compartments ruled in blind, gilt and gauffered edges (spine neatly repaired at head and foot, three corners repaired).
FIRST EDITION. A handsome copy, bound by one of the foremost Roman binders of his time, of an important Blado imprint. The work describes in twelve cantos (in imitation of Ovid's Fasti) the feast days celebrated each month in contemporary Rome, and traces their parallels in ancient times in order to prove the continuity of many Roman customs in Christian guise. The illustrations heading each canto are tripartite: the centre showing the principal saint for the month, on the left the chief Christian festival and on the right its ancient equivalent. Mortimer, Harvard Italian 198; Sander 5019.