Dante Alighieri

Comedia del Divino Poeta Danthe Alighieri, con la dotta & leggiadra spositione di Christophoro Landino: con somma diligentia &accuratissimo studio nuovamente corretta, & emendata: da infiniti errori purgata, ac etiandio di utilissime postille

      [Venice: Bernadino Stagnino, 1536]. Thick 4to, (28), 1-440 leaves. With one large woodcut, small woodcuts at the beginning of each canto, and the printerOs woodcut device at the end. Retrospective full brown morocco gilt-tooled in the Italian style, four leaves supplied from a shorter copy, four ink inscriptions on title-page (three crossed out) and one on the verso, other ink inscriptions and occasional very early annotations in the margins mostly towards the front. A beautifully restored copy by Trevor Lloyd. An important and rare early edition of Dante, being the second reprinting of the 1512 edition. The last copy at auction in the US or the UK was 1989. One copy sold in Italy since then. Essling, Les Livres ! Figures V!nitiens, II: p. 19, #544. OMemes bois que dans l'Edition 1512O. Not in Mortimer or Dyson Perrins; Adams D-93. Mambelli 29. Livio Ambrogio, 2003, #28.