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Aldine Press. Epistolae clarorum virorum, selectae de quam plurimis optimae, 1st edition, Venice: apud Paulum Manutium, 1556, a little spotted, effaced contemporary ownership and other inscriptions to title-page and endpapers, bookplate (Ratcliffe College), contemporary limp vellum, spine worn, soiled, 8vo (13.6 x 9.8 cm), together with: Delle lettere volgari di diversi nobilissimi huomini, et eccellentissimi ingegni ... nuovamente ristampate, e con diligentia ricorette, 2 parts in 1 volume, Venice: in casa de'figlioli di Aldo [part 2 colophon], 1560 & 1556, first title-page marked, a few other marks elsewhere, final leaf chipped and partly detached, front inner hinge split, old vellum, section of shallow erosion to head of spine and rear board, 8vo (15.2 x 10 cm), Epistolarum Pauli Manutii libri X, duobus nuper additis, 3 parts in 1 volume, Venice: in aedibus Manutianus, 1571, early English ownership inscription to title-page (another effaced), occasional spotting and browning, old vellum, crude tape repair to front inner hinge extending over front board, 8vo (14.6 x 9.8 cm), and 1 other (another set of Lettere Volgari, 3 volumes, mixed editions, 1564-64-67, non-uniform bindings, incomplete, lacking at least leaf S5 in volume 1, 8vo) (Qty: 6) Provenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Adams E275 (Epistolae), L582 & L589 (Delle lettere), M489 (Epistolarum); Ahmanson-Murphy 506 (Epistolae), 625 & 507 (Delle Lettere); STC Italian pp. 235 (Epistolae), 413 (Epistolarum); Renouard 169:13 (Epistolae), 180:14 & 169:14 (Delle Lettere), 212-13:7 (Epistolarum).