Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Verdizzotti, Cento favole morali, Venice, 1577, contemporary French morocco gilt with arms of Nicolas Moreau d'Auteuil

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6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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VERDIZZOTTI, GIOVANNI MARIA. Cento favole morali. De i piu illustri antichi, & moderni autori greci, & latini. Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1577


Second Ziletti edition of Verdizotti's fables; THE FAIRFAX-MURRAY–VERSHBOW COPY.


Giovanni Mario Verdizotti (1525-1600) was a pupil, secretary and friend of Titian's. Verdizotti was a capable draughtsman, lauded by Dolce and by Vasari, and made the illustrations himself, declaring their derivation from the collection of Gabriele Faerno published in Rome in 1563 (Titian and the Venetian woodcut, 1976, p. 144).


This volume was bound for Nicolas Moreau, Sieur d'Auteuil (c. 1544-1619), Treasurer of France. It has two of his ownership inscriptions with his motto, "A Lamy son Coeur", an anagram of his name; one can be found on the verso of the final preliminary leaf and the other on the final leaf of the text. For another volume in the present sale bound for Moreau, see lot 1661 (Doni).

4to (207 x 140 mm). Italic type, 27 lines plus headline. collation: a6 A-S8 T6 V4: 160 leaves. Title within elaborate architectural woodcut border, woodcut of an astrologer to a6v, 100 woodcut illustrations by Verdizotti, woodcut initials and headpieces, ruled in red throughout. (Some light marginal dampstaining, 24 x 15 mm stain to title-page.)


binding: Contemporary French olive morocco (213 x 153 mm) over pasteboards, double gilt fillets around sides, in centre of both covers gilt arms block of Nicolas Moreau (Guigard II, p.375; not in Olivier), flat spine richly gilt “à feuillages” with oval containing 4 line horizontal title, stubs from 2 pairs of ties, edges gilt, in a green cloth box. (Binding very slightly rubbed and stained, small repairs to corners, small wormhole to foot of spine, lacking ties.)


provenance: Nicolas Moreau, Sieur d'Auteuil (c. 1544-1619), Treasurer of France, arms on binding and ownership inscriptions to a6v and final leaf—Sotheby's, 19 March 1896, lot 890, £4 to Leighton—Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), Catalogo dei libri posseduti (1899), no. 2279 and List of printed books (1907), p. 235, his sale, Sotheby's, 17 July 1922, lot 1065—Constantine N. Radoulesco (1868-1957), Romanian philosopher, academic, and politician, "CR" monogram stamp—Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow, bookplate, their sale, Christie's, New York, 20 June 2013, lot 735. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: Edit16 CNCE 67769; USTC 862539; A. Vidier, "Un bibliophile du XVIe siècle", Mélanges offers à Émile Picot, 1913, pp. 371-376; Shapovalova, "Nicolas Moreau d’Auteuil et ses livres", Bulletin du Bibliophile, 2014, pp. 7-61, no. 66

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