BOCCACCIO.

Il Decamerone. [Ed. A. P. Manutius].

Venice, Aldo & Andrea Torresani, November 1522. Sm. 4to., 326 leaves including the blank leaf R4, italic letter, Aldine anchor on title and verso of last leaf; a tall copy (214 by 130 mm.) in English 19th century dark green morocco gilt, with the Aldine anchor on covers; gilt edges; with the bookplate of Conte Leonardo Vitetti. First Aldine edition, embodying a new text, and the first containing the three added Novelle (not by Boccaccio) at end.In the prefatory letter addressed to Roberto Magio, the printer Andrea Torresani – Aldus’ father-in-law – says that the text was prepared and corrected by Aldus himself. “Gran tempo ha ... che la presente opera … alla sua vera & sana lettione ridotta … è da Aldo mio cognato, & c.”. If this is true it is the only vernacular text that Aldus edited. Perhaps, Martin Davies suggests, Torresani means he just gathered the material, which he might then have given to say a Bembo or Navagero to edit. Renouard says that the edition served as textual basis for the Giunta edition of 1527, noting “Dans la Bibliothèque Médicis, à Florence, on en conserve l’exemplaire que les Junte ont en 1527 donné pour copie à leurs compositeurs”.This is the copy listed in the Quaritch Aldine catalogue of 1929, formerly in the library of the Earl of Powis.

• GBP 18,000.00 > Andere Währungen
• Bestellnummer: C929

• Antiquariat: Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (GREAT BRITAIN)