Lando, Lettere di molte valorose donne, Venice, 1548 (1549), contemporary Italian brown morocco gilt, the Ingram–Huth copy

8vo (158 x 100 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-V⁸ X⁴ (X4 blank): 164 leaves. Title-page and verso of final leaf with woodcut device, woodcut initials. (Some spotting.)

binding: Contemporary Italian brown morocco (164 x 106 mm), large frame of 2 pairs of double gilt fillets interlacing at sides and head and foot of inner frame, gilt leaves at inner angles, in centre of panel 4 trefoils connected at the base of their stems and forming a cross, traces of 2 pairs of ties, spine with 3 full bands and 4 false bands, gilt leaf in compartments, later red title label and label with “VINEGIA|1548” added to third and tail compartments, edges gilt and gauffered. (Restored at extremities.)

provenance: "Francesco Colandi", sixteenth-century inscription on lower endleaf—seventeenth- or eighteenth-century oval black armorial inkstamp at foot of title with initials "N.A.A." in cartouche surrounding a rampant lion facing left (not in Bragaglia)—Sir William James Ingram, 1st Baronet (1847-1927), sale, Sotheby's, 6 April 1903, lot 248, £2 10 to F.S. Ellis, London—Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), bookplate, sale, Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1914, lot 4360, £8 5s to Bernard Quaritch—Bloomsbury Auctions, Rome, 18 June 2008, lot 58. acquisition: Purchased in 2018 from Paolo Rambaldi, Mayfair Rare Books, London. references: USTC 837268; Edit16 CNCE 26078