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DANTE ALIGHIERI. Dante con l'Espositioni di Christoforo Landino, et d'Alessandro Vellutello. Edited by Francesco Sansovino. Large woodcut portrait of Dante on title; 96 text illustrations (including repetitions); Sessa woodcut device at end. [28], 163, [4], 164-392 leaves. Folio, 312x212 mm, lavishly gilt-tooled black morocco by Josefina L. Díez Lassaletta circa 1965, gilt edges with additional painted floral decoration on top, fore, and bottom edges, and cameo portrait of Dante on fore edge, burgundy silk doublures and endleaves; minor marginal soiling and stains at beginning and end, scattered early marginalia, 2E3.6 browned, restoration in blank lower outer corner of preliminaries, along top and bottom edges of N7, bottom edges of 2S4.5, and in blank lower margin of last few leaves. Signatures on front flyleaf of W. Bohun dated 1768; Leonard Chappelow, 1785; Leonard Jenyns, 1820; and Charles Jenyns, 1852. Venice: Giovambattista, Marchio Sessa, & Fratelli, 1578
