Details
GIRALDI, Giovanni Battista (1504 -1573). Orbecche tragedia. Venice: Aldine press, 1543. 8° (146 x 94 mm). Engraved portrait on title verso, Aldine device on title, repeated on final verso. With the blank penultimate leaf. Italic and Roman types, initial spaces, some with guide-letter. (Deleted inscription on title-page pasted over with minor repair on verso, occasional light spotting, small stain at hinge, occasionally repaired.) 18th-century calf, gilt spine (small repairs at spine, with small loss). Provenance: 18th century inscription on front endpaper -- Sir Charles James Stuart, 2nd Baronet (1824-1901, armorial bookplate).
RARE FIRST EDITION of this tragedy, Giraldi's most famous. This copy has the engraved portrait on the verso of the title page; other issues are known without the engraving or with a woodcut portrait pasted on. Ahmanson-Murphy 314; Renouard 127:4 ('very rare').
RARE FIRST EDITION of this tragedy, Giraldi's most famous. This copy has the engraved portrait on the verso of the title page; other issues are known without the engraving or with a woodcut portrait pasted on. Ahmanson-Murphy 314; Renouard 127:4 ('very rare').