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POLLIO, Giovanni. Opera noua della vita & morte della diua & seraphica. S. Cathari[n]a da Sie[n]a. Venice: G. de Rusconi for Niccolò Zoppino, 13 February 1511.
4° (209 x 140mm). Title within a woodcut historiated border and with a large woodcut of St. Catherine receiving the stigmata, large woodcut of the Crucifixion within a border on 2a4v, half-page woodcut of the Virgin Mary 'in cathedra' on the following page and 17 small illustrations in the text, device at end, with the final blank. 18th-century Italian half vellum.
Second edition of Pollio's life of St. Catherine in verse. The woodcut on the title-page is a reverse copy of the illustration used in the first edition of Siena, 1505. Sander 5827; Essling 1746.
4° (209 x 140mm). Title within a woodcut historiated border and with a large woodcut of St. Catherine receiving the stigmata, large woodcut of the Crucifixion within a border on 2a4v, half-page woodcut of the Virgin Mary 'in cathedra' on the following page and 17 small illustrations in the text, device at end, with the final blank. 18th-century Italian half vellum.
Second edition of Pollio's life of St. Catherine in verse. The woodcut on the title-page is a reverse copy of the illustration used in the first edition of Siena, 1505. Sander 5827; Essling 1746.