Strozzi, poetae pater et filius, Venice, Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, 1513, Viennese black morocco over thin wooden boards, ca. 1530, manuscript corrections possibly by Aldine workshop

Strozzi, Tito Vespasiano. Strozii poetae pater et filius. Venice: Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, January 1513

As with the previous lot, this copy presents the same manuscript corrections corresponding to those recorded by H. George Fletcher in his study, Manuscript corrections in the Aldine Strozzi of 1513 (The Book of Venice - Il libro veneziano, ed. Lisa Pon and Craig Kallendorf, Miscellanea Marciana, 20 [2005-2007], pp. 191-206). Fletcher notes that these corrections appear across multiple copies, suggesting they were applied at or near the time of publication, potentially within the Aldine workshop itself.

The book is cited by T. Kimball Brooker (Gazette of the Grolier Club, 2020, p. 32, Fig. 1), and its contemporary black goatskin binding—bearing the name Strozzi, the initials N.G.H., and the Aldine dolphin and anchor device—is referenced in the Grolier Club's 2015 exhibition Aldus Manutius: A Legacy More Lasting Than Bronze as one of the earliest known examples of a collector distinguishing their Aldines through bespoke binding. The Viennese-style binding aligns with research by Ilse Schunke (1960) and Paulina Hamanovä (1967) on the Viennese Aldus Binder, an anonymous workshop active in the early 16^th century known for its refined gilt-tooled bindings on Aldine editions.

8vo (159 x 101 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: ^πA⁸ A-M⁸ N⁴ a-t⁸: 260 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device to title-page and verso of last leaf, guide letters in initial spaces. (First couple of quires beginning to loosen from textblock, especially first leaf, intermittent dampstaining, mainly marginal.)

binding: Viennese black morocco over thin wooden boards (167 x 102 mm), ca. 1530, partial bevels at all three edges, border with floriate motifs and heads in faded gold, STROZII at top of upper cover, anchor & dolphin flanked by AL-DVS in center, and N-GH below, lower cover with gilt quadrilobe in center and knotwork tool above and below, metal clasps. (Lacking endleaves, a few small wormholes to spine, corners bumped with some exposure, spine a little cracked and worn, small area of worming to rear pastedown.)

provenance: Unidentified owner, supralibros, initials N.G.H. on lower cover with gilt quadrilobe in center and knotwork tool above — unidentified owner, early inscription "Sum Collegii Th … ad St. … " — unidentified owner, seventeenth-century inscriptions "Ex libris Johanis Thromes" and "Festina Lente" — unidentified owner, inscription "Avts. Bares 1630" — Jan Garvinski (d. 1680), inscription "Sum Joannis Garvinski 1661" — Józef Kalasanty Dzieduszycki (1776-1847) and Count Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki (1825-1899), of Lwów, their inkstamp "Poturzycka Biblioteka J.W.D" on f. 90 of both texts; Count Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki (1825-1899), blue oval inkstamp "W.D." on f. 90 of both texts — Henri Gallice (1854-1930), ex libris to verso of title-page — Marcel Jeanson (1885-1942), ex libris to front pastedown; his sale, Sotheby's Monte Carlo, 28 February-1 March 1987, lot 546 — Martin Breslauer Inc., New York. acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, 1991. references: UCLA 110; Renouard 65/10; Edit16 37457; USTC 857690; compare for binding, Ilse Schunke, "Ein Wiener Renaissance-Einband aus der Palatina in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek" in Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1960, pp. 388-396 Paulina Hamanovä, "Aus der Werkstatt des Wiener Aldus-Buchbinders" in Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1967, pp. 272-277