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Le lettere / di m. Bernardo Tasso ; vtili non solamente alle persone priuate, ma anco à secretarij de prencipi, per le materie che vi si trattano, & per la maniera dello scriuere ...

Tasso, Bernardo, 1493-1569, author.; Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586. Astrophel and Stella.; Leicester, Philip Sydney, Earl of, 1676-1705, former owner.; Southey, Robert, 1774-1843, former owner.; Cornetti, Giacomo, active 1584-1593, printer.; Westmorland, Francis William Henry, Earl of, 1825-1891, former owner.; Woodward, Rowland, 1573-1636, former owner.
1585
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Title
Le lettere / di m. Bernardo Tasso ; vtili non solamente alle persone priuate, ma anco à secretarij de prencipi, per le materie che vi si trattano, & per la maniera dello scriuere ...
Edition
Di nuouo ristampate, riuedute & corrette con molta diligenza.
Created/published
In Venetia : Appresso Giacomo Cornetti, 1585.
Description
[8], 284 leaves ; 15 cm (8vo)
Associated name
Tasso, Bernardo, 1493-1569, author.
Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586. Astrophel and Stella.
Leicester, Philip Sydney, Earl of, 1676-1705, former owner.
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843, former owner.
Cornetti, Giacomo, active 1584-1593, printer.
Westmorland, Francis William Henry, Earl of, 1825-1891, former owner.
Woodward, Rowland, 1573-1636, former owner.
Note
Signatures: *⁸, A-2M⁸, 2N⁴ (*8 blank) (B1 signed D; Q2 signed R2).
Cited/described in
Kelso, R. Doctrine for the lady, 786 (another ed.)
Linked resources
Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.532
Genre/form
Courtesy books.
Annotations.
Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Venice.

Call number
PQ4634.T6 L3 1585 Cage
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: gathering G lacking. Philip Sydney, 5th Earl of Leicester-Robert Southey copy.
Call number
V.a.532
Folger-specific note
In 19th century quarter sheep over marbled paper boards. Autograph on t.p.: Row. Woodward. Inscription on t.p.: De juegos el mejor es con la hoja. Final blank leaf from original binding, with manuscript passages in Latin and Italian; verso with 24 lines in English in a minute secretary hand containing abbreviated quotations from Sidney's Astrophel and Stella and recording variants unique to the quarto editions and small variants unique to this manuscript Manuscript bookplate: The Earl of Westmoreland 1856.

Adopted by Elizabeth Harvey, Acquisitions Night 2004.

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