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La zvcca del Doni

Place and publisher from colophon of bk. [3]. Books [1-3] dated 1551, books [4-6] dated 1552 · The 6 books have added t.p.'s and are signed and paged separately · [32], 63 p.; [8], 64 p.; [8], 61, [3] (the last blank) p.; [32], 185, [3] (the last blank) p.; [16], 175, [1] (blank) p.; 87, [1] (blank) leaves · Illustrations: 58 text ill., most of them allegorical, in addition to title borders, the devices of Doni and Marcolini, and historiated initials (the last chiefly in bk. [5]). A number of the small ill. (ca. 78 mm. square within double-line borders) were designed for Marcolini's Sorti of 1540; see Mortimer, 164. The architectural title border that appears at the beginning of the vol. as a whole and at the beginning of books [2-6] incorporates figures and 2 gourds. Prepared for this ed., it was also used for the Spanish translation published by Marcolini later in 1551. Stylistically the border derives from Lorenzo Torrentino's Medici border apparently first used at Florence in 1550; see Mortimer, 164. Two less elaborate borders of scrolls and vines are used on the added t.p.'s of pts. 1-3 of books [3-6] (except pt. 1, bk. [6]) · Illustrations, cont. The full-page port. of Doni t

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