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La hystoria & nascimento de Orlando. Perugia: Andrea Bresciano [ca. 1550]. 4° (205 x 140mm). 6 leaves. Large woodcut on title-page of a King and a group of people in a room, one of them holding a drum. (Light staining throughout.) Tan morocco by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, inner gilt dentelle, g.e.
One of many editions of this enormously popular poetical romance of chivalry, also known under the title Innamoramento de Melone e Berta e come nacque Orlando et de sua pueritia. Sander 5217; Agnelli & Ravegnani II, p.185; Segarizzi, Stampe popolari, 88.
Opera nova de una novella perche si dice traditor della carne insalata che fu vn giouine nominato Iacinto ilquale ando a star a vna ice: Francesco de Tomaso di Salò, e compagni, [ca.1565]. 4° (188 x 136mm). 4 leaves. Title within a fine woodcut historiated border. (The four leaves skilfully inlaid with loss of a few letters.) Blue morocco by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, gilt turn-in, g.e. Provenance: Charles Fairfax Murray (catalogue, 1397).
Probably the only edition of this very rare and entertaining poetical novella in ottava rima recounting the adventures of a young Italian man in Greece with a young and beautiful girl of fifteen and her fierce mother. (2)
One of many editions of this enormously popular poetical romance of chivalry, also known under the title Innamoramento de Melone e Berta e come nacque Orlando et de sua pueritia. Sander 5217; Agnelli & Ravegnani II, p.185; Segarizzi, Stampe popolari, 88.
Opera nova de una novella perche si dice traditor della carne insalata che fu vn giouine nominato Iacinto ilquale ando a star a vna ice: Francesco de Tomaso di Salò, e compagni, [ca.1565]. 4° (188 x 136mm). 4 leaves. Title within a fine woodcut historiated border. (The four leaves skilfully inlaid with loss of a few letters.) Blue morocco by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, gilt turn-in, g.e. Provenance: Charles Fairfax Murray (catalogue, 1397).
Probably the only edition of this very rare and entertaining poetical novella in ottava rima recounting the adventures of a young Italian man in Greece with a young and beautiful girl of fifteen and her fierce mother. (2)