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PETRARCA, FRANCESCO. Le Cose Volgari. [187] (of [188]) leaves, including blank z4; lacks final blank A8. 8vo, 145x90 mm, 17th-century vellum boards, spine darkened; margins trimmed eliminating most manuscript foliation, light marginal dampstaining toward end, marginal numbering added to the index in an early hand; red sprinkled edges. 17th-century signature of Alessandro Gras[s?]i on title; inscription of Jo. Barker, 'di Sigr. Ales. Grassi,' dated Rome, 15 April 1671. [Lyon: Balthasard de Gabiano the Elder for Barthélemy Trot?, circa 1502]
first lyon counterfeit edition of 1501 Aldine Petrarch, made from the uncorrected first issue, and one of the earliest piracies of the Aldine octavo series. Renouard, page 308(17); New UCLA 1101; Shaw 1A/2, in D. J. Shaw, 'The Lyons Counterfeit of Aldus' Italic Type, A New Chronology,' The Italian Book 1465-1800: Studies presented to Dennis E. Rhodes (1993), pages 117-133.
