Alberti, De viris illustribus, Bologna, 1517, modern half red calf over wooden boards

Leandro Alberti

De viris illustribus ordinis Praedicatorum libri sex in unum congesti. (Bologna: Girolamo Benedetti for Giovanni Battista Lapi, 1517)

folio (290 x 200mm.), title and start of each book within woodcut border, full-page woodcut illustrations (some within the woodcut border), with blank leaf k6, woodcut printer's device beneath colophon, modern half red calf over wooden boards, small stains on GG6-HH1, a few small marginal paper repairs, some borders cut close or slightly shaved, spine faded

FIRST EDITION. A compilation of the lives of significant Dominicans, together with bibliographies of their writings. The woodcuts are based on those for the Trionfi of Petrarch, with each Dominican sitting on a triumphal chariot.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 680; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 10; Sander 173