Pindemonte, Ecphrasis in Horatii Flacci artem poeticam, Venice, Sons of Aldo Manuzio, August 1546, eighteenth-century vellum

Pindemonte, Francesco Filippo. Francisci Philippi Pedimontii Ecphrasis in Horatii Flacci artem poeticam. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, August 1546

4to (210 x 155 mm). Italic and Roman type, 37 lines plus headline. collation: A-P⁴ Q⁶: 66 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page. (Scattered foxing and staining.)

binding: Eighteenth-century vellum (217 x 165 mm), flat spine decoratively gilt, with gilt-lettered red and black morocco labels, blue endpapers. (Some spoiling, chips to labels.)

provenance: Colonna di Sciarra, family library (Rome), inkstamp to final leaf — Vincent Clementi (1812-1899), inscription "V. Clementi, Trinity College, Cambridge" on front free endpaper. acquisition: Purchased from Maggs Bros, London, 1985. references: UCLA 345; Renouard 138/16; Edit16 26968; USTC 848781