[Rarebooks] fa: Tasso's AMINTA - BODONI 1789 - Fine Printing in Tree Calf Binding

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, March 8. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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Torquato Tasso: Aminta : Favola Boschereccia di Torquato Tasso ora per la prima volta alla sua vera lezione ridotta. Crisopoli [Parma]: Impresso Co' Caratteri Bodoniani, MDCCLXXXIX [1789]. Tall 4to (29.5 x 22 cm) in later but not recent full tree calf tooled in gilt, gilt page edges; [12], 14, [2], 142 pp.; engraved title-page vignette and head-piece.

Modest wear to the binding, front and rear joints professionally repaired; occasional traces of light foxing, a few leaves lightly bumped at the bottom corner; otherwise very clean and bright. A handsome example. Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813) was an Italian typographer and printer famed for his type design and the subtle elegance of his page compositions. He established the Duke of Parma's Stamperia Reale in 1769 and, after issuing many fine editions with great success, was allowed to open his own printing house in the 1780s. Tasso's Aminta was only the second work to be printed under his own name.