Sannazaro, Arcadia, Venice, Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, 1514, eighteenth-century Italian vellum

Sannazaro, Jacopo. Arcadia del Sannazaro. Venice: Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, September 1514

Contains 7 lines from 84v printed in error on A2 verso.

8vo (152 x 98 mm). Italic type, 29 lines. collation: A-K⁸ L¹⁰: 90 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device to title-page and verso of last leaf. (Intermittent light dampstaining.)

binding: Eighteenth-century Italian vellum (158 x 102 mm), light blue endpapers, early shelfmark "XVII/N" on upper pastedown, gilt and gauffered edges. (Patches of soiling and wear to foot of spine.)

acquisition: Purchased from Bottega Apulja, Bari, 1970. references: UCLA 126; Renouard 68/7; Edit16 36176; USTC 854616