Speroni, Dialogi, Venice, Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1543, Northern Italian (Padua?) dark brown morocco, ca. 1543

Speroni, Sperone. Dialogi di m. S. Speroni. Nuouamente ristampati, & con molta diligenza riueduti, & corretti. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1543

Second Aldine edition, revised and corrected.

8vo (156 x 94 mm). Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: A-X⁸ Y⁴: 172 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device to title-page and verso of last leaf, guide letters in initial spaces. (Intermittent light spotting, mainly marginal.)

binding: Northern Italian (Padua?) dark brown morocco, ca. 1543 (159 x 98 mm), frame of three gilt fillets flanked by multiple blind fillets, gilt double volute in corners, in center Fortuna on dolphin with sail, edges gilt and gauffered to a knotwork pattern. (Endleaves and pastedowns renewed, rebacked (by Zaehnsdorf in 1912), light wear to covers.) Housed in a half morocco box by Brockman.

provenance: Henry Devenish Harben (1874–1967), ex libris — John Worth; his sale, Sotheby's London, 31 October 1974, lot 802; purchased by — E. Kauffman — Patrick King Rare Books, Stony Stratford; Catalogue 15 (Stony Stratford [1991]), item 65. acquisition: Purchased from Patrick King, Stony Stratford, 1991. references: UCLA 315; Renouard 128/5; Edit16 26946; USTC 857236