Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Garimberti, Della fortuna libri sei, Venice, 1547, Venetian russet morocco gilt by the Fugger Binder

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3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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GARIMBERTI, GIROLAMO. Della fortuna libri sei. Venice: Michele I Tramezzino, 1547

FIRST EDITION IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING BY THE FUGGER BINDER.

This volume was bound by the largest producer of fine bindings in Venice, known as the “Fugger Binder” on account of his work for Johann Jakob Fugger. It is an addition to the census of 121 books compiled by Anthony Hobson, Renaissance book collecting (Cambridge 1999), "Appendix 8: Bindings by the Fugger Binder". The gold tooling is essentially identical to the Aldines bound by this workshop for Cardinal Perrenot de Granvelle (Piquard's Type B); see, for example, Bibliotheca Brookeriana: The Aldine Collection A-C, 12 October 2023, lot 340 (Cicero).

8vo (150 x 103 mm). Italic type, 28 lines plus headline. collation: A⁸ a⁸ B-T⁸(A8v, T6v, T7r and final leaf blank): 160 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page and penultimate verso, initial spaces with printed guides, some manuscript annotations. (Some light spotting throughout, slight worming to outer margin of first 4 leaves, marginal dampstaining to upper outer corner of first quires, 5cm vertical loss to outer margin of F5.)

binding: Contemporary Venetian binding (156 x 108 mm) by the Fugger Binder, russet morocco over thin wooden boards, inner and outer border of single gilt fillet between multiple blind fillets, fleuron tool at corners, title lettered in gilt on upper cover, spine with 3 full and 4 half bands, stubs from 4 pairs of ties. (Binding slightly scraped and soiled, corners and foot of spine defective, joints cracked, upper endpaper removed, ties lacking.)

provenance: "Dr Filippo Voncia", inscription to upper pastedown. acquisition: Purchased in 2000 from Diana Parikian, London. references: Edit16 CNCE 20408; USTC 831825

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