[Rarebooks] FS: Two early and rare Bodoni imprints. Parma: 1772

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(BODONI PRESS) [Calini, Orazio]. LA ZELINDA. TRAGEDIA.Parma: Dalla Stamperia Reale. 1772. 8vo. 88pp. With decorative woodcuthead-pieces at the beginning of each of the 4 acts. BOUND WITH:[Magnocavallo, Francesco Ottavio]. CORRADO, MARCHESE DI MONFERRATO. TRAGEDIA.Parma: Dalla Stamperia Reale. 1772. 8vo. (8),xvi,95,(1)pp. Decorativehead-pieces. Bound in cont. full vellum, red morocco spine label, vellum a bitsoiled. With the bookplate, "Ex Libris Marchionis Salsae," the plateof Giovanni D. Berio, Marchese de Salza (d. 1791), and the more modernbookplate of Bernardine Murphy. $1,000.00(trade discount allowed)
Tworare Italian plays, finely printed by Bodoni early in his career – his firstimprint is 1768. Both plays were also printed in 4to. editions, with differentpagination and each with a frontispiece which is not called for in the 8vo.version. See, Brooks #27 and #23. OCLC records only 1 copy of the 8vo. "LaZelinda" and 5 copies of the 8vo. "Corrado."
 
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