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SAVONAROLA, Girolamo. Vita viduale. [Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, before September 1495?].
Chancery 4° (202 x 136mm). Collation: a-b8 c6 (a1r title, woodcut, a1v blank, a2r text, c6 blank). 19 (of 20, without final blank) leaves. 33 lines. Type: 1:97R1, 3:114G. Woodcut of a friar before nuns, lombard initials. Modern red morocco. Provenance: a few early manuscript corrections.
Second, but first illustrated, edition of one of Savonarola's earliest published writings. The title woodcut, which appears in several Savonarola editions, has been seen to depict Savonarola himself (Schäfer, 303). HC 14368; BMC VI, 659 (IA. 27562); Goff S-287; IGI 8746; Audin 46; Sander 6886.
Chancery 4° (202 x 136mm). Collation: a-b8 c6 (a1r title, woodcut, a1v blank, a2r text, c6 blank). 19 (of 20, without final blank) leaves. 33 lines. Type: 1:97R1, 3:114G. Woodcut of a friar before nuns, lombard initials. Modern red morocco. Provenance: a few early manuscript corrections.
Second, but first illustrated, edition of one of Savonarola's earliest published writings. The title woodcut, which appears in several Savonarola editions, has been seen to depict Savonarola himself (Schäfer, 303). HC 14368; BMC VI, 659 (IA. 27562); Goff S-287; IGI 8746; Audin 46; Sander 6886.