Details
[ca. 1502-03, Lyonese counterfeit]
DANTE. Le terze rime. Aldine 8° (162 x 93mm). Collation: a-z A-F8 G.. (a1r title Le terze rime di Dante, a1v subtitle Lo'nferno e'l purgatorio e'l paradiso di Dante Alaghieri, l2 blank, x3v blank, G12v blank). 244 leaves. Unwatermarked paper. Lyons italic type 1:79, first state. 30 lines and headline. (2 small holes in title mended, slight worming at the end affecting a couple of letters, a few marginal stains.)
BINDING: contemporary North-Italian russet goatskin gilt, leaf-tool at four corners of a foliate border on sides, knotwork tool in central compartment, gilt and gauffered edges, (ties removed, spine and covers restored, gilt fading). PROVENANCE: some marginalia in an early cursive hand, and a few notes in a later hand; Genoa, St. Charles congregation of the urban mission (17th or 18th-century stamps on title and two text-pages)
FINE COPY of a counterfeit from the earliest Lyons group, perhaps printed by Balthasar de Gabiano for Barthélemy Trot, both Italian emigrants. N. Barker in vol. V of the Murphy catalogue ascribes the edition to Guillaume Huyon, who signed Aldine piracies printed with old Gabiano type, Lyons italic 2:79, from 1519 onwards. The original Aldine edition had appeared in August 1502. The relatively large number of Lyonese counterfeits surviving in contemporary Italian bindings indicates that their market lay to a considerable extent in direct competition with Aldus in Italy. RARE. Shaw 5; Murphy 755; Baudrier VII, 11-12; R 307:9
DANTE. Le terze rime. Aldine 8° (162 x 93mm). Collation: a-z A-F8 G.. (a1r title Le terze rime di Dante, a1v subtitle Lo'nferno e'l purgatorio e'l paradiso di Dante Alaghieri, l2 blank, x3v blank, G12v blank). 244 leaves. Unwatermarked paper. Lyons italic type 1:79, first state. 30 lines and headline. (2 small holes in title mended, slight worming at the end affecting a couple of letters, a few marginal stains.)
BINDING: contemporary North-Italian russet goatskin gilt, leaf-tool at four corners of a foliate border on sides, knotwork tool in central compartment, gilt and gauffered edges, (ties removed, spine and covers restored, gilt fading). PROVENANCE: some marginalia in an early cursive hand, and a few notes in a later hand; Genoa, St. Charles congregation of the urban mission (17th or 18th-century stamps on title and two text-pages)
FINE COPY of a counterfeit from the earliest Lyons group, perhaps printed by Balthasar de Gabiano for Barthélemy Trot, both Italian emigrants. N. Barker in vol. V of the Murphy catalogue ascribes the edition to Guillaume Huyon, who signed Aldine piracies printed with old Gabiano type, Lyons italic 2:79, from 1519 onwards. The original Aldine edition had appeared in August 1502. The relatively large number of Lyonese counterfeits surviving in contemporary Italian bindings indicates that their market lay to a considerable extent in direct competition with Aldus in Italy. RARE. Shaw 5; Murphy 755; Baudrier VII, 11-12; R 307:9