Il Lamento Di Cecco Da Varlungo Di Francesco Baldovini Colle Note Dorazio Marrini Edizione Giusta

by Embroidered Binding Francesco Baldovini

$2,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Engraved frontispiece portrait. lx, 279 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In contemporary binding of Italian white silk, the sides embroidered with gold thread in an ornamental pattern framing on the upper cover the arms of a member of the Royal House of Austria in gold, blue, and black threads; and, on the rear, a floral design of gilt thread; with stunning endpapers of gold foil printed with a design of hounds and stags in a forest; all edges gilt. Albeit worn and somewhat faded, a very interesting example of

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