San Pedro, Carcel de amor, Venice, 1553, contemporary Venetian brown morocco gilt by Anthoni Lodewijk of Flanders
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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SAN PEDRO, DIEGO DE. Carcel de amor hecha por Hernando de Sanct Pedro, con otras obras suyas. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari & Brothers, 28 June 1553 [bound with:]
ALFONSO DE ULLOA. Introdutione del Signor Alphonso di Uglioa, nella quale s'insegna pronunciare la lingua Spagnuola di parecchi vocaboli hispanuoli difficili contenuti quasi tutti nella Tragicomedia di Calisto e Melibea o Celestina. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari & Brothers, 1553
FIRST GIOLITO EDITION OF THE FIRST WORK, THE MOST IMPORTANT SPANISH NOVEL OF COURTLY LOVE, in a contemporary Venetian binding by the Fleming Anthoni Lodewijk. Lodewijk is believed to have worked as an apprentice to the Fugger Binder, and his principal patron was Johan Jakob Fugger, for whom he bound at least 58 manuscripts and printed books. Additionally, Lodewijk accepted commissions from Giolito himself, on behalf of patrons including the Duchess of Urbino and Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle. The present binding is not included in Hobson's census, but the same bud tool and central open rosette tool both appear on Hobson & Culot 14 (Bruni, Rerum suo tempore, 1539, in a Venetian binding by Anthoni Lodewijk, c. 1553).
The Introdutione is the second part of Giolito's 1553 edition of Fernando de Rojas, Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, en la qual se contienen de mas de su agradable y dulce estilo.
2 works in one volume, 8vo (161 x 104 mm). collation: (1) A8 B3-8 C-H8 I4: 66 leaves (only, of 68, lacking B1-2); (2) *8 **8 ***8: 24 leaves. (Lacking B1-2 text leaves in first work, lower endleaves removed, some marginal dampstaining.)
binding: Contemporary Venetian brown morocco (161 x 104 mm), by Anthoni Lodewijk of Flanders, richly gold-tooled, border formed by 2 pairs of double gilt fillets with rounded oblong spaces at centre of each side and heart-shaped space at each corner, all such spaces filled with gold dots, flame tool in interstices on vertical sides, in panel undulating lozenge, open rosette in centre, solid floral design above and below, bud and leaf at four cardinal points, at corners a pomegranate-like tool with open leaves and a large open leaf tool, small open rosette in each circular indentation of lozenge, traces of 4 pairs of fabric ties, 4 full bands, edges gilt with 2 parallel rows of 3 gauffered dots. (Rebacked with original compartments laid down, recornered, wormholes.)
provenance: Ink monograms of two ?seventeenth-century owners to upper endleaves—verso of final endleaf with twentieth-century bookseller's notes in Spanish. acquisition: Purchased in 2007 from Michael Laird, Lockhart TX. references: (1) USTC 340524; Edit16 CNCE 027076; (2) cf. USTC 343250; Edit16 CNCE 47621 (whole work, here only second part); for Hobson's census (with the present volume not included), see Renaissance Book Collecting (Cambridge, 1999), Appendix 9, "Venetian Bindings by Anthoni Lodewijk for other collectors"; for a binding by Ludwig dating from c. 1553 featuring some of the same tooling, see Hobson & Culot, Italian and French 16th-Century Bookbindings, item 14
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