CORSO, Antonio Giacomo

The Rime San Luca [Venice], Al Segno del Cognitione [Comin da Trino], 1550 BEAUTIFUL BINDING BY DEROME ORIGINAL EDITION In-8 (142 x 93 mm). Portrait on the title page, woodcut fleurons, initials and endpapers COLLATION : A-I8 : 72 ff. (A2r-I8r folioed 2-78) CONTENTS : A1r : title, A2r : dedication, A4r : text BINDING SIGNED BY DEROME. Red morocco, gilt decoration, triple fillet in frame, long spine decorated with vertical titling, gilt edges on marble PROVENANCE: Charles Butler, politician and collector from Warren Wood, Hatfield (1821-1910; bookplate) -- Edwin Marion Cox, American physician who lived in London (1869-1942; bookplate with the motto "Quousque tandem") -- trace of a detached bookplate Very slight foxing on title leaf, small ink stain at E8v, soiling at I8v. Bound without the quire K BIBLIOGRAPHY: USTC 824241 -- EDIT16 13557 -- not in Brunet -- J. Balsamo, De Dante à Chiabrera. Italian poets of the Renaissance in the library of the Barbier-Mueller Foundation, Geneva, 2007, t. I., n° 142, pp. 296 ff. -- for the provenance : S. de Ricci, English Collectors, pp. 181-182