Ricci, De imitatione, Paris, Bernardino Torresano, 1557, early nineteenth-century dark green morocco

Ricci, Bartolomeo. Bartholomaei Riccii De imitatione libri tres, ad Alfonsum Atestium principem, suum in literis alumnum, Herculis II. Ferrariensium principis filium. Paris: Bernardino Torresano, 1557

16mo (115 x 69 mm). Italic type, 28 lines plus headline. collation: a-n⁸: 104 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device to title-page. (Light dampstaining to lower margin of last few leaves.)

binding: Early nineteenth-century dark green morocco (117 x 72 mm) (signed C. Smith, probably Samuel Charles Smith, no. 31 in Cowie's Bookbinders’s Manual, 1829), gilt anchor device on covers, spine gilt, gilt fillet around edges, two gilt fillets on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. (Spine a little worn.)

acquisition: Purchased from Bruno Hessling, Berlin, 1963. references: UCLA 1050; Renouard 297/8; FB 84670; USTC 152240