Alamanni, Opere toscane, Venice, 1542, contemporary brown morocco gilt

ALAMANNI, LUIGI

Opere toscane. Venice: heirs of Lucantonio Giunta (for Peter Schoeffer of Mainz, 1 July) 1542

2 volumes in one, 8vo (158 x 98mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-pages, larger woodcut device on final verso, with final blank leaf, contemporary Italian brown morocco gilt over pasteboard, edges gilt and gauffered, a few small repairs to spine, lower joint cracked at foot, lacking 2 pairs of ties

This compilation of Alamanni's verse was first printed in Lyon in 1532; this reprint still contains his dedication to François I of France.

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