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DE MARINIS, Tammaro (1878-1969). Il Castello di Monselice. Raccolta degli antichi libri veneziani figurati. Verona: Hans (Giovanni) Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni [for conte Vittorio Cini], 20 December 1941.
Large 4o (316 x 238 mm). LIMITED EDITION OF 310 COPIES. Handmade wove paper by the brothers Magnani of Pescia. 92 plates (some double-pages, a few in color). Red half morocco, top-edges gilt, others uncut. Matching slipcase. Provenance: the author, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to him by the collector: "A Tammaro de Marinis la prima copia di quest' opera da lui inspirata e realizzata: Con viva gratitudine e amicizia. Vittorio Cini, Venezia 18 Gennaio 1942."
DE MARINIS'S OWN COPY of his catalogue of early Venetian illustrated books, an important complement to Essling's Livres à figures vénitiens de la fin du XVe siècle et du commencement du XVIe (Paris 1907). "Within a few years of their having been acquired by Cini, he completed the catalogue of Prince d'Essling's Venetian illustrated books -- more than seven hundred of them, including sixty from other sources, which the new owner had housed in his Castle of Monselice in the Veneto ... There can be little doubt that De Marinis undertook this task because he had played a rôle in placing the collection" (B.H. Breslauer, "Tammaro De Marinis Remembered" in Ulrico Hoepli 1847-1935, 1997, p. 267). The collection is now in the Fondazione Cini on San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice.
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DE MARINIS'S OWN COPY of his catalogue of early Venetian illustrated books, an important complement to Essling's Livres à figures vénitiens de la fin du XV