I Dialogi.

8vo: [2]-176 ff. (2 first ff. stained, marginal wormhole, sm. tear in the text pp. 36-61, remains of a label on verso of f. 169, stain to f. 170).

Later rebacked (?) pastiche binding: brown leather, covers entirely blind decorated with a large flower tool and sm. ones in the corners, central cartouches with gilt title and date "1142" (sic), spine on raised bands, brown edges.

First Aldine edition of the dialogues of Speroni (1500-1588), one of the central members of Padua's literary Accademia degli Infiammati. Edited by his friend Daniele Barbaro (1514-1570), humanist, translator and commentator of Vitruvius. Aldine mark on title and reverse of last leaf. Capital spaces with guide-letters. Ref. Renouard 125:7. - Edit16 53856. - Adams S-1565. - STC Italian 636. Prov. [Georges Petit].