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[Laire, François Xavier]. Serie dell'edizioni Aldine per ordine cronologico ed alfabetico. Terza edizione con emendazioni egiunte. Florence: Tipografia della Società letteraria [of Pisa] for Giuseppe Molini, 1803
Uncut, fourth edition (the third was Venice, 1791) of this Aldine bibliography. Containing Notizie letterarie intorno ai Manuzj stampatori e alla loro famiglia by Apostolo Zeno (pp. 1–84; originally printed in Venice, 1736). According to Piero Scapecchi’s preface to the facsimile reprint (Sala Bolognese: Forni, 2013), the edition exists in two issues: one with the Notizie letterarie and a folding table, paginated [vi] 84, 195 [1] (500 copies); the other [3] 195 [3] (250 copies), the latter distinguished by a preface set in a smaller typeface (p. vi). The present copy is the former issue.
It is notable for listing relative prices in paoli romani next to each entry (e.g., 1494 Lascaris 80, Aristophanis 100, Bembo 40, Hypnerotomachia 60, 1501 Petrarca 200, 1501 Virgil 360). It cites as key sources the catalogues of Petau (1722), Hohendorf (1720), Marchiana (1727), and Jos. Smith (1773).
8vo (193 x 122 mm, uncut). (Stain along gutter of title-page.)
binding: Twentieth-century vellum (202 x 136 mm), undecorated, untrimmed edges.
acquisition: Purchased from Jonathan A. Hill, New York, 1980. references: Lamberto Donati, "Bibliografia Aldina" in La Bibliofilía 52 (1950), pp. 188-204 no. 28 ("Quarta edizione, curata dal Molini dietro ad alcune notizie mandategli dal p. F.L. Baroni.")
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