Dolce (Lodovico): Dialogo, nel quale si ragiona del Modo Accrescere e Conservar la Memoria, Venice, [colophon: Gio. Battista et Marchio Sessa, 1562], 8vo, first edition, Pegasus device on title, 23 woodcuts, 6 full-page, woodcut initials (old ownership inscription on title, slightly affected by damp), contemporary vellum (sides crinkled and rather soiled, hole in spine and upper cover). [Adams D732; Brunet II, 789; Mortimer, Italian Books I, 157]

细节
Dolce (Lodovico): Dialogo, nel quale si ragiona del Modo Accrescere e Conservar la Memoria, Venice, [colophon: Gio. Battista et Marchio Sessa, 1562], 8vo, first edition, Pegasus device on title, 23 woodcuts, 6 full-page, woodcut initials (old ownership inscription on title, slightly affected by damp), contemporary vellum (sides crinkled and rather soiled, hole in spine and upper cover). [Adams D732; Brunet II, 789; Mortimer, Italian Books I, 157]

拍品专文

The blocks were designed for Giorgio de' Rusconi's 1520 Venice edition of Johann Host von Romberch's Congestorium Artificiose Memorie, the basis of Dolce's Dialogo. The blocks came to the Sessa press for a 1533 edition of the Congestiorum.