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Nouo libro di lettere scritte da i piu rari auttori et

professori della lingua volgare italiana.

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Groliers Last Binder
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Gerardo, Paolo
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Nouo libro di lettere scritte da i piu rari auttori et

professori della lingua volgare italiana.
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Style: Interlacing ribbon/strapwork; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Gilt
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Calf
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Shelfmark: c20a23
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 1544; Venice; Grolier, Jean (1479-1565)
Notes c. 1550, Paris, bound for J. Grolier by Grolier's last binder (H. M. Nixon, Bookbindings from the library of Jean Grolier, p. 64-65, n. 126). Traces of two ties.
References Similar examples J. R. Abbey, Catalogue of valuable printed books and fine bindings, 19-21 June 1967, p. 174-175, lot 2070 on Origen, De recta in deum fide dialogus, Paris, Audoenus Parvus, 1556; Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Des livres rares, p. 69, n. 48; C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, Bucheinbände. Katalog XXI, n. 21, pl. IX; La reliure ancienne et moderne, pl. 94; T. de Marinis, Appunti, p. 140, n. 73, pl. CCLXIV on text Second livre d'Architecture par Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Paris, 1561 (Mostra storica della legatura artistica in Palazzo Pitti, n. 577). This craftsman produced covers in vellum too (Librairie Sourget, Chartres, Manucrits enluminés et livres précieux. Catalogue VI, p.136, n. 43 on Lucrèce, De rerum natura libri sex, a Dionysio Lambino, Paris and Lyons, Guillaume and Philippe Rouillé, 1563). For his J. Grolier bindings list, see A. Hobson, Renaissance book collecting, p. 229, (i) Last Binder.
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