May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 214

Price Realized: $ 570
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
TRISSINO, GIOVANNI GIORGIO. Dialogo . . . intitulato il Castellano. Printer's woodcut device on title. [20] leaves. Small folio, disbound; first half of volume dampstained, title soiled; cloth folding case. [Vicenza: Tolomeo Janiculo da Bressa, 1529]
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first edition of a dialogue on the Italian language printed in an Arrighi italic employing the orthographic reforms unsuccessfully advocated by Trissino, which included the use of Greek letters to differentiate open and closed vowels. Laid in is a 1925 TLS on British Museum letterhead from Victor Scholderer to Owen Grazebrook answering the latter's questions about this book.