Petrarca, Le cose volgari di messer Francesco Petrarcha, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, July 1501, nineteenth-century brown English morocco (Rivière)

Petrarca, Francesco. Le cose volgari di messer Francesco Petrarcha. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, July 1501

With signature B, Aldo's address to the reader and errata, at end.

8vo (158 x 90 mm). Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: a-y⁸ z⁴ ($3) A⁸ B⁴ (A8 a blank): 192 leaves. Manuscript foliation in an early hand. (Restoration to title and final four leaves, some soiling, marginal worming to a few leaves, a few stray spots.)

binding: Nineteenth-century brown English morocco by Rivière (163 x 100 mm), gold tooled in Grolieresque interlacing strapwork design with azured floral tools, spine with raised bands in six compartments, second and third gilt-lettered, others with overall repeat decoration in gilt, all edges gilt. (Slight rubbing to extremities, joints starting.)

provenance: Caleb Scholefield-Mann (1822-1882), ex libris — William Horatio Crawford (1815-1888), ex libris; his sale, Sotheby's London, 12-23 March 1891, lot 2401 — Bernard Quaritch, London, purchased in previous sale (£11 10s); Catalogue 115 (London 1891), item 521 (£13) — Murray Anthony Potter (1871-1915), ex libris — Harvard College Library, Cambridge, MA, accession stamp (1935) and deaccession stamp. acquisition: Purchased from Hofmann & Freeman, Cambridge, MA, 1967. references: UCLA 43; Renouard 28/5; Edit16 36111; USTC 847779