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SPIRITO, Lorenzo (c.1430-c.1490). El libro dala Ventura overo il Libro de la Sorte. Milan: Guillaume le Signerre for Gottardo da Ponte, 28 October 1501.
Chancery 2° (285 x 197mm). Collation: a8 b12 c8 d6 e4 (a1r title with verse naming the author, publisher's device, full border, a1v wheel of fortune, a2r-4r portraits of kings within full border and strip borders, a4v-b6r tables of 56 throws of 3 dice arranged in 6 ruled columns with block at centre illustrating one of 20 signs, b6v-c4r wheels divided into 56 rivers, within full border and with central circular block illustrating one of the 20 signs, c4v-e4v text, e4v printer's device and colophon). 38 leaves. Roman type. 56 lines and headline. 2 woodcut full borders (one incorporating Da Ponte device) repeated to 6 impressions, full-page woodcut wheel of fortune, 20 woodcut portraits of kings from 15 blocks printed 4 to a page, 20 pages of dice throws with 20 woodblocks of signs, 20 circular woodcuts of signs within wheel of text set within one of two borders, 20 portraits of prophets and other Biblical figures. (Lightly browned, few marginal nicks repaired, washed and pressed.) Red morocco janseniste, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, by Riviere & Son, modern red half morocco solander case. Provenance: Christopherus Holtschuher (16th-century ownership inscription on title) -- C.W. Dyson Perrins (bookplates, sale Sotheby's, 18 June 1946, lot 265, £320 to Zwemmer).
ONLY COMPLETE COPY KNOWN of this popular Italian work of chance and fortune. To arrive at a fortune, one first consults the wheel at the front of the book. The wheel sends one to a king; the king to a sign; the sign, with a throw of dice, to a wheel; the wheel to a prophet. Spirito's work originated about 1482 and was printed at least five times in the 15th century, including one translation into French; all editions are very rare. An imperfect copy, the only other copy known of the present edition, is in the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin. Sander 7046; T. de Marinis 'Le illustrazioni per il "Libro de le Sorte" di Lorenzo Spirito,' Appunti e Ricerche Bibliografiche 77.
Chancery 2° (285 x 197mm). Collation: a8 b12 c8 d6 e4 (a1r title with verse naming the author, publisher's device, full border, a1v wheel of fortune, a2r-4r portraits of kings within full border and strip borders, a4v-b6r tables of 56 throws of 3 dice arranged in 6 ruled columns with block at centre illustrating one of 20 signs, b6v-c4r wheels divided into 56 rivers, within full border and with central circular block illustrating one of the 20 signs, c4v-e4v text, e4v printer's device and colophon). 38 leaves. Roman type. 56 lines and headline. 2 woodcut full borders (one incorporating Da Ponte device) repeated to 6 impressions, full-page woodcut wheel of fortune, 20 woodcut portraits of kings from 15 blocks printed 4 to a page, 20 pages of dice throws with 20 woodblocks of signs, 20 circular woodcuts of signs within wheel of text set within one of two borders, 20 portraits of prophets and other Biblical figures. (Lightly browned, few marginal nicks repaired, washed and pressed.) Red morocco janseniste, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, by Riviere & Son, modern red half morocco solander case. Provenance: Christopherus Holtschuher (16th-century ownership inscription on title) -- C.W. Dyson Perrins (bookplates, sale Sotheby's, 18 June 1946, lot 265, £320 to Zwemmer).
ONLY COMPLETE COPY KNOWN of this popular Italian work of chance and fortune. To arrive at a fortune, one first consults the wheel at the front of the book. The wheel sends one to a king; the king to a sign; the sign, with a throw of dice, to a wheel; the wheel to a prophet. Spirito's work originated about 1482 and was printed at least five times in the 15th century, including one translation into French; all editions are very rare. An imperfect copy, the only other copy known of the present edition, is in the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin. Sander 7046; T. de Marinis 'Le illustrazioni per il "Libro de le Sorte" di Lorenzo Spirito,' Appunti e Ricerche Bibliografiche 77.
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