Pontano, Amorum libri II, [Venice? after 30 December 1522], contemporary Italian brown morocco

Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano. Ioannis Iouiani Pontani Amorum libri II. De amore coniugali III. Tumulorum II qui in superiore aliorum poematon editione desyderabantur. Lyrici I. Eridanorum II. Eclogae duae Coryle, et quinquennius superioribus quatuor additae. Calphurnii siculi Eclogae VII. Aurelii Nemesiani Eclogae IIII. Explicatio locorum omnium abstrusorum Pontani authore Petro Summontio viro doctissimo. Index rerum, quae in his Pontani lusibus contineantur. [Venice(?): Anonymous press, 1520?]

An Italian counterfeit of the 1518 Aldine edition.

8vo (160 x 98 mm). Italic and Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-x⁸ y⁴ (s8 and x5 blanks): 172 leaves. Early marginalia. (Worming, foxing, soiling, and dampstaining.)

binding: Contemporary Italian brown morocco (166 x 104 mm), series of rectangular frames of fillets and roll tools, pot-a- feu tool in center of vertical row of roundels containing marguerites, traces of two pairs of ties, manuscript title to top edge, edges stained blue. (Worn with significant loss to extremities and spine.)

provenance: Inscription "Nicolai Alonzi Diaconi Plani (?)" to title — inscription "Marco Ant[onii Virtuani Plan. a Joann. Andrea Plosio Matinenti]" to lower endleaf. acquisition: Purchased from Libreria Forni, Bologna, 1976. references: cf. Renouard 318/4 ("Sans date, feuillets chiffrés. Copie des éditions Aldines de 1513 et 1518, dont on reproduit jusqu'aux fautes typographiques"); Edit16 29649; USTC 850324