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PASSAVANTI, JACOPO. Lo Specchio di Vera Penitenzia. [16], 111 [i. e., 385], [7] pages. 12mo, 128x75 mm, early 18th-century red morocco gilt bound for the third Earl of Sunderland with center- and cornerpieces of massed floral tools and volutes outlined by narrow bands of inlaid black morocco on covers, corners bumped; margins trimmed without text loss, lower portion of title soiled, contents otherwise generally clean; brown morocco pull-off case, scuffed. Florence: Bartolommeo Sermartelli, 1585
Later edition of a treatise on penance written by a Dominican preacher in the mid-14th century and first published in 1495.handsomely bound copy from the library of Charles Spencer (1674-1722), third Earl of Sunderland, sold as lot 9374 in the Blenheim Palace sale at Puttick & Simpson on 10 November 1882 to Quaritch, with their bookplate; offered in their 1883 Catalogue of the Fine Arts as item 13543 ("the finest binding ever executed for Lord Sunderland").
