Petrarca, Li sonetti, canzoni et triomphi, Venice, Niccolò Zoppino, 1530, nineteenth-century blue polished calf

Petrarca, Francesco. Li sonetti, canzoni et triomphi di m. Francesco Petrarcha historiati. Venice: Niccolò Zoppino, 1530

The Syston Park copy. An Italian counterfeit of the Aldine edition of 1521, with six full-page woodcut illustrations by Zoan Andrea. Rare.

8vo (147 x 90 mm). Italic type, 29 lines. collation: A-Z⁸ AA⁸ BB⁴: 196 leaves. Title-page with illustrated architectural frame, title printed in red and black, six woodcut illustrations. (Restoration to title and following leaf with portions in facsimile, first two leaves remargined, repair to B1, a few short closed marginal tears, longer tear to M7, scattered soiling, spotting, and browning.)

binding: Nineteenth-century blue polished calf (154 x 98 mm), covers with border of three gilt fillets framing border of repeated three-lobed leaf in blind, gilt fleurons in corners, spine with semi-raised bands in six compartments, second with gilt-lettered red morocco label, edges of covers gilt, all edges gilt, turn-ins with gilt rules, marbled endleaves. (Extremities a bit rubbed.)

provenance: Sir John Thorold, 9^th Bt. (1734-1815) — Sir John Hayford Thorold, 10^th Bt. (1773-1831), ex libris "J.H.T." — Sir John Henry Thorold, 12^th Bt. (1842-1922), ex libris "Syston Park"; his sale, Sotheby's London, 12-19 December 1884, lot 1500 — William Ridler, London, purchased in previous sale (11s) — Gilbert Richard Redgrave (1844-1941), ex libris; his sale, Sotheby's London, 3-4 May 1926, lot 201 — Zwemmer, London, purchased in previous sale (£1 1s) — William A. Slocum, ex libris — William Salloch, Catalogue 357 (Ossining 1979), item 89 ($400). acquisition: Purchased from William Salloch, Ossining, NY, 1979. references: Edit16 59340; USTC 847834