Gerardo, Vita et gesti d'Ezzolino terzo, Venice, 1544 [and other works], green morocco silver-tooled by the Fugger Binder for Cardinal Perrenot de Granvelle

3 works in one volume, 8vo (154 x 104 mm). Italic type. collation: A-O⁸; A-N⁸; *⁸ A-R⁸ S⁴: 112 + 104 + 148 leaves. Title-page to each volume with woodcut device, sixteenth- or seventeenth-century shelfmarks at head of first title-page.

binding: Venetian olive green morocco (158 x 116 mm), by the Fugger Binder for Granvelle (Piquard’s Type A), richly silvered, multiple rectangular borders formed by silvered and blind fillets, frame containing repeated curved leafy tool, small star and rosette tool, bud and leaves at outer angles, large arabesque corner pieces, undulating lozenge formed by single fillet containing cross formed by single fillet with stirrup finials at top and bottom and fleur-de-lys at sides, rosette in centre, traces of 4 pairs of blue and white alternating ties, spine with 3 full and 4 half bands, edges silvered, two blue title labels painted across edges between ties, 2 line title lettered in gold “EZZELINO|TIRANNI” and “HISTOR|VENET”. (Extremities rubbed with minor loss to spine.)

provenance: Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Bishop of Arras (later Cardinal de Granvelle) (1517-1586), with his armorial stamp on verso of title, by descent to—Count de La Baume-Saint Amour (d. 1707)—Abbé Pierre-Paul Vrayet (d. 1757?), armorial bookplate—Arthur Brölemann of Lyon (1826-1904), armorial bookplate (not in 1897 Catalogue des manuscrits et livres rares de la bibliothèque d'Arthur Brölemann or Sotheby's sale catalogue for the library inherited by his great-granddaughter, 4-5 May 1926)—André Jammes, with his pencil inscription on upper pastedown (“C.C.A.J. 015”). acquisition: Purchased in 2015 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris. references: (1) Edit16 CNCE 20699; USTC 832282; (2) Edit16 CNCE 8877; USTC 818305; (3) Edit16 CNCE 29486; USTC 842932