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PAYNE, Roger (binder). SABADINO DEGLI ARIENTI, Giovanni. Porretane doue si narra nouelle settanta una. Venice: Melchior Marchio Sessa, 1531.
8o (146 x 95 mm). Title with woodcut border incorporating Sessa's 'cat and mouse' device, ruled in red throughout. BOUND BY ROGER PAYNE in late 18th-century olive green morocco, wide gilt border of single fillet and alternating flower, sprig and star tools, surrounding a delicate central panel made up of various small flower, roundel, star and thistle tools, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered in second and fifth, olive green morocco doublures with wider border, corners on a studded background and central panel built up from the same tools and additional floral tools, morocco inner joints, pink stained endpapers, green silk ribbon marker (some light rubbing and fading to covers, front free endpaper loose); red morocco solander case. Provenance: Mr. J. Hunter, sold Leigh & Sotheby, London, 2 February 1813, lot 307 -- Richard Heber, sold 1836, part IX, lot 2566 to Crozat -- Lilly (notation on preliminary blank) -- Sir Thos. Brooke (bookplate) -- VGH (monogramed bookplate) -- Lucius Wilmerding (bookplate) sold Parke-Bernet, part II, 6 March 1951, lot 500 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 5 April 1971.
FIRST EDITION. "Cette édition et celle de 1540 sont bonnes et assez rares" (Brunet V:4). BM/STC Italian p. 595.
8o (146 x 95 mm). Title with woodcut border incorporating Sessa's 'cat and mouse' device, ruled in red throughout. BOUND BY ROGER PAYNE in late 18th-century olive green morocco, wide gilt border of single fillet and alternating flower, sprig and star tools, surrounding a delicate central panel made up of various small flower, roundel, star and thistle tools, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered in second and fifth, olive green morocco doublures with wider border, corners on a studded background and central panel built up from the same tools and additional floral tools, morocco inner joints, pink stained endpapers, green silk ribbon marker (some light rubbing and fading to covers, front free endpaper loose); red morocco solander case. Provenance: Mr. J. Hunter, sold Leigh & Sotheby, London, 2 February 1813, lot 307 -- Richard Heber, sold 1836, part IX, lot 2566 to Crozat -- Lilly (notation on preliminary blank) -- Sir Thos. Brooke (bookplate) -- VGH (monogramed bookplate) -- Lucius Wilmerding (bookplate) sold Parke-Bernet, part II, 6 March 1951, lot 500 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 5 April 1971.
FIRST EDITION. "Cette édition et celle de 1540 sont bonnes et assez rares" (Brunet V:4). BM/STC Italian p. 595.