Cavalca, Specchio di croce, Florence, 1490, later burgundy leather

Domenico Cavalca

Specchio di croce. Florence: Francesco di Dino, 27 March 1490

4to (218 x 138mm.), 119 leaves (of 120), a-p⁸, 28 lines, roman type, later burgundy leather tooled in period style, a few early text corrections, lacking first leaf with woodcut (supplied in facsimile), occasional light foxing or staining, spine faded

First Florentine edition of Cavalca's devotional text based on Christ on the cross. A note beneath the colophon has been erased, which seems to refer to the text ("Opus Dominici...").

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ISTC ic00349000