Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Castiglione, Gallorum Insubrum antiquae sedes, Milan, 1541, nineteenth-century tan calf by Koehler

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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CASTIGLIONE, BONAVENTURA. Gallorum insubrum antiquae sedes. Milan: Giovanni Antonio Castiglione, 7 April 1541

FIRST EDITION. The first recorded use of Castiglione's chancery italic with swash capitals, a rare type-face. Johnson and Morison record its use for two complete books only and the preliminaries of a third. A peculiarity is that the type is used throughout until p. 133, where in the middle of a sentence the use of italic is abandoned and a roman letter is used for the remaining six pages.

4to (217 x 152 mm). Italic and roman type, 23 lines plus headline. collation: A⁸ B-P⁴: 64 leaves. Woodcut initials throughout and woodcut printer's device to verso of final leaf. (Light dampstaining at upper margin, some spotting.)

binding: Nineteenth-century tan calf (222 x 160 mm) by Koehler, triple gilt fillet round sides, spine with five bands, decorated with fillets, morocco label to second compartment, sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles. (Joints starting, upper board rubbed, rear pastedown torn at upper margin.)

provenance: Joachín Gómez de la Cortina, Marqués de Morante (Mexico, 1808-1868), professor at Madrid University, bookplate to verso of front free endpaper, sale, Delbergue, Paris, 21 February 1872, lot 1692. acquisition: Purchased in 2018 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris. references: USTC 819502; Edit16 CNCE 10108; Adams, C-946; Cicognara 2562; for Castiglione's use of chancery italic: Johnson and Morison, Fleuron III, p. 39

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