![FLORIO, John (ca 1553-1625). Florio His Firste Fruites which yeelde familiar speech, merie prouerbes, wittie sentences, and golden sayings. London: Thomas Dawson for Thomas Woodcocke, [1578]. [and:] Florios Second Frvtes ... To which is prefixed his Garden of Recreation. London: Thomas Woodcocke, 1591.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/NYR/2001_NYR_09878_0046_000(033317).jpg?w=1)
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FLORIO, John (ca 1553-1625). Florio His Firste Fruites which yeelde familiar speech, merie prouerbes, wittie sentences, and golden sayings. London: Thomas Dawson for Thomas Woodcocke, [1578]. [and:] Florios Second Frvtes ... To which is prefixed his Garden of Recreation. London: Thomas Woodcocke, 1591.
2 parts in 2 volumes, 4o (192 x 133 mm and 196 x 120 mm). Collation of part one: *-***4, A-Tt4 (Tt4 blank). Also with blank Aa4 at end of part two. Roman and italic type, parallel Italian and English text in double column in part one, and on facing pages in part two. Woodcut architectural title borders, the same border repeated for divisional title to the 'Garden of Recreation' (McKerrow and Ferguson 133). Title to part one with woodcut bear-and-distaff device on verso. Woodcut opening initials, type ornaments. (Small stain on K2 of vol. I, minor soiling, headline torn away on A3 in vol. II, D2 in vol. II with small burn-hole just touching letters.) Contemporary limp vellum; calf-backed red cloth box, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: Thomas Coke -- Thomas Warburton (ownership inscriptions on title to part one, the same title also with partly erased gift inscription dated 1585) -- George, Earl of Berkley (18th-century letterpress bookplate) -- Sion College Library (stamp on title verso), purchased at their sale through Harry A. Levinson, Sotheby's, London, 13 June 1977, lot 28.
FIRST EDITION of both parts, containing "discourses in Italian and English which afford much interesting information concerning social customs of the day. The Giardino di Ricreatione ... contains six thousand proverbs which also are of equal interest to students of social history and philology" (Jackson). A commendatory poem in the second part, "Phaëton to his Friend Florio," was once attributed to Shakespeare and considered his first appearance in print. The first part is much rarer than the second. Both British Library copies of part one are imperfect. There were no further editions of either part until a facsimile of part one was produced in 1936. FINE SET. Jaggard p. 104; Pforzheimer 377 (part two only); STC 11096 and 11097. (2)
2 parts in 2 volumes, 4o (192 x 133 mm and 196 x 120 mm). Collation of part one: *-***4, A-Tt4 (Tt4 blank). Also with blank Aa4 at end of part two. Roman and italic type, parallel Italian and English text in double column in part one, and on facing pages in part two. Woodcut architectural title borders, the same border repeated for divisional title to the 'Garden of Recreation' (McKerrow and Ferguson 133). Title to part one with woodcut bear-and-distaff device on verso. Woodcut opening initials, type ornaments. (Small stain on K2 of vol. I, minor soiling, headline torn away on A3 in vol. II, D2 in vol. II with small burn-hole just touching letters.) Contemporary limp vellum; calf-backed red cloth box, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: Thomas Coke -- Thomas Warburton (ownership inscriptions on title to part one, the same title also with partly erased gift inscription dated 1585) -- George, Earl of Berkley (18th-century letterpress bookplate) -- Sion College Library (stamp on title verso), purchased at their sale through Harry A. Levinson, Sotheby's, London, 13 June 1977, lot 28.
FIRST EDITION of both parts, containing "discourses in Italian and English which afford much interesting information concerning social customs of the day. The Giardino di Ricreatione ... contains six thousand proverbs which also are of equal interest to students of social history and philology" (Jackson). A commendatory poem in the second part, "Phaëton to his Friend Florio," was once attributed to Shakespeare and considered his first appearance in print. The first part is much rarer than the second. Both British Library copies of part one are imperfect. There were no further editions of either part until a facsimile of part one was produced in 1936. FINE SET. Jaggard p. 104; Pforzheimer 377 (part two only); STC 11096 and 11097. (2)