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Lot 12
Boccaccio (Giovanni) La Fiammetta del Boccaccio per messer Tizzone Gaetano di Pofi novamente revista, [Toscolano Maderno], [Paganino & Alessandro Paganini], 1527-1533.
Hammer Price: £1,300
Description
Boccaccio (Giovanni) La Fiammetta del Boccaccio per messer Tizzone Gaetano di Pofi novamente revista, collation: A-N8 O4, italic type, initials supplied in ink, some water-staining to upper corners, occasional spotting or staining, lightly browned, later endpapers, contemporary black morocco, covers with blind-ruled and gilt decoration to a panelled design, with fleuron centre-pieces, and star, moon, and floral corner-pieces, rebacked, preserving majority of original backstrip in compartments, rubbed, gilt gauffered edges, 8vo (154 x 90mm.), [Toscolano Maderno], [Paganino & Alessandro Paganini], [c.1527-1533].
⁂ Rare edition at auction of what has been considered the first psychological novel in Western Literature. Set in Naples, it tells of Fiammetta's tragic love affair with the Florentine merchant Panfilo.
Provenance: Jo. Antonius Culletus, 1573 & 1574 (acquisition note to title and final recto); Graham Pollard (acquisition note in pencil on rear pastedown, Hodgsons in 1954 for £3/10s).
Literature: EDIT 16 CNCE 6250.
Description
Boccaccio (Giovanni) La Fiammetta del Boccaccio per messer Tizzone Gaetano di Pofi novamente revista, collation: A-N8 O4, italic type, initials supplied in ink, some water-staining to upper corners, occasional spotting or staining, lightly browned, later endpapers, contemporary black morocco, covers with blind-ruled and gilt decoration to a panelled design, with fleuron centre-pieces, and star, moon, and floral corner-pieces, rebacked, preserving majority of original backstrip in compartments, rubbed, gilt gauffered edges, 8vo (154 x 90mm.), [Toscolano Maderno], [Paganino & Alessandro Paganini], [c.1527-1533].
⁂ Rare edition at auction of what has been considered the first psychological novel in Western Literature. Set in Naples, it tells of Fiammetta's tragic love affair with the Florentine merchant Panfilo.
Provenance: Jo. Antonius Culletus, 1573 & 1574 (acquisition note to title and final recto); Graham Pollard (acquisition note in pencil on rear pastedown, Hodgsons in 1954 for £3/10s).
Literature: EDIT 16 CNCE 6250.
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