Speroni, Dialogi, Venice, Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1546, limp vellum

Speroni, Sperone. Dialogi di m. S. Speroni. Nuouamente ristampati, & con molta diligenza riueduti, & corretti. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, March 1546

8vo (145 x 95 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-V⁸: 160 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device to title-page and verso of last leaf, guide letters in initial spaces. (Ink- and dampstained, wormhole to title-page and gutter of final quire.)

binding: Limp vellum (152 x 98 mm) (possibly eighteenth-century as seventeenth-century index is trimmed), traces of two pairs of ties. (Lightly creased and worn, a few small wormholes to spine.)

provenance: Unidentified owner, sixteenth-century inscription "Gio. Batta. Roberto" to title-page — unidentified owner(s), obliterated inscriptions on title-page (one dated 1681) — unidentified owner, seventeenth-century(?) inscription "Al sig.rmo Lalicadia (Galuadia?)" on last leaf —unidentified owner, black armorial inkstamp to title-page — Frederick Innes Allen (1859-1938), inscription. acquisition: Purchased from Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Worcester, 1995. references: UCLA 341; Renouard 139/25; Edit16 67030; USTC 857237