Tinti, La nobiltà di Verona, Verona, 1590, later russet morocco gilt with painted unicorn impresa

4to (205 x 148 mm). Italic type, 27 lines plus headline. collation: a⁶ A-3Y⁴: 278 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces. (Some light spotting, worming to title through to a4 and final quire, quire A becoming detached at lower inner margin, small stains to O3 slightly affecting text, ink stains to T2, 2V4 and 2X1 with text still legible, repaired tear to 3F1v.)

binding: Late-seventeenth- or early-eighteenth-century binding with painted impresa (207 x 158 mm), Veronese (?Venetian territories), russet morocco, gilt fillet flanked by multiple blind fillets around sides, gilt solid fleuron at angles and azured lengthy fleuron at inner corners, inlaid central oval of vellum outlined by gilt fillet and containing painted impresa of a white unicorn in foreground dipping his horn in a stream cascading from rift in mountains, and a scroll above bearing motto "VENISTI TANDEM", spine with 3 bands, later title-label in second compartment gilt rosette in others, stubs from 2 pairs of ties, edges gilt with border of twin dots. (Rebacked retaining much of original spine, with sections of spine ends neatly supplied, recornered, minor worming to boards and pastedowns, impresa on upper cover more rubbed.)

provenance: Unicorn impresa and motto "venisti tandem" on binding—Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982), bequeated to the Fondation Furstenberg-Beaumesnil, sale, Ader Picard Tajan & Claude Guérin with Dominique Courvoisier, Paris, 16 November 1983, lot 175. acquisition: Purchased in 1990 from Librairie Sourget, Chartres. references: Edit16 CNCE 32622; USTC 859062