DONI, Antonio Francesco (ca 1513-1574). I mondi, libro primo . Venice: Francesco Marcolini 1552.
DONI, Antonio Francesco (ca 1513-1574). I mondi, libro primo . Venice: Francesco Marcolini 1552. Book one (of two) only, comprising four parts in one volume, 4 o (212 x 150 mm). Italic type. 128 leaves. Large woodcut device on general title, smaller devices on section titles and 54 woodcuts, including three repeats. (Some occasional staining in lower margins, margin tear on HH2.) Contemporary flexible vellum, gilt armorial block in center of covers. Provenance : Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), Minister of Finances for France under King Louis XIV, founder of the Academy of Sciences and celebrated bibliophile whose library contained 23,000 books and 5,212 manuscripts upon his death (inscription on title, binding); acquired from Thomas Thorp, 1962. FIRST EDITION. "Doni's text is concerned with members of the Accademia dei Pellegrini. Marcolini was a member, and the special title-pages have Accademia imprints" (Mortimer). The majority of the Mondi blocks in book I are the rectangular blocks from Marcolini's Sorti of 1540. On S3r is Titian's block of Aretino and the siren for from the Stanze of 1537. Printed on leaf A4v (and repeated three times) is the block of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio from the Prose antiche di Dante, Petrarcha et Boccaccio , compiled by Doni and printed by him in Florence in 1547. The Vershbow copy has the same early state of the first line on F4v as the first Hofer copy described by Mortimer, but not the same state as the second to last line. The second part was published the following year. Adams D-825; Brunet II:811; Mortimer Italian 166.
DONI, Antonio Francesco (ca 1513-1574). I mondi, libro primo . Venice: Francesco Marcolini 1552.
DONI, Antonio Francesco (ca 1513-1574). I mondi, libro primo . Venice: Francesco Marcolini 1552. Book one (of two) only, comprising four parts in one volume, 4 o (212 x 150 mm). Italic type. 128 leaves. Large woodcut device on general title, smaller devices on section titles and 54 woodcuts, including three repeats. (Some occasional staining in lower margins, margin tear on HH2.) Contemporary flexible vellum, gilt armorial block in center of covers. Provenance : Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), Minister of Finances for France under King Louis XIV, founder of the Academy of Sciences and celebrated bibliophile whose library contained 23,000 books and 5,212 manuscripts upon his death (inscription on title, binding); acquired from Thomas Thorp, 1962. FIRST EDITION. "Doni's text is concerned with members of the Accademia dei Pellegrini. Marcolini was a member, and the special title-pages have Accademia imprints" (Mortimer). The majority of the Mondi blocks in book I are the rectangular blocks from Marcolini's Sorti of 1540. On S3r is Titian's block of Aretino and the siren for from the Stanze of 1537. Printed on leaf A4v (and repeated three times) is the block of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio from the Prose antiche di Dante, Petrarcha et Boccaccio , compiled by Doni and printed by him in Florence in 1547. The Vershbow copy has the same early state of the first line on F4v as the first Hofer copy described by Mortimer, but not the same state as the second to last line. The second part was published the following year. Adams D-825; Brunet II:811; Mortimer Italian 166.
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