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[FOLENGO, Teofilo]. MERLIN COCCAI
Opus Merlini Cocaii poetæ mantuani macaronicorum
Amsterdam [Naples], Abraham à Someren, 1692
REMARKABLE AND ENCHANTING BINDING BY LEBRUN WITH GEOMETRICAL DECORATION.
COPY OF CHARLES FAIRFAX MURRAY
The most complete edition of these poems in Macaronic Latin
In-8 (153 x 117 mm). Flower on the title page, initials and woodcut endpapers
COLLATION: *6 A2 2*8 A-Z8 2A-C8 2D4 (A1 mis-signed A2): (16) ff. 419 pp, (2) ff.
CONTENTS: *1v : frontispiece, *1r : title, *1v : Hexasticon Joannis Baricocolæ, *3r : Vita Theophili Folengi, A1r : epistles, 2*6v : Apologetica, 28v : preface in verse, A1r : text, 2D2v : table
ILLUSTRATION : 1 engraved portrait in frontispiece, 26 very nice copper-engraved vignettes in mid-page
BINDING SIGNED BY LEBRUN. red morocco, geometrical gilt decoration, rectangular filleting on the boards, spine ribbed and decorated in the same way, gilt head, numerous witnesses preserved
PROVENANCE: Charles Fairfax Murray (his sale, London, July 18, 1922, No. 430: "red morocco, line tooling on sides forming a succession of 33 panels one within the other [...] by Lebrun")
Old angular restorations in 2*5 and 2A2, marginal restorations in X3 and Z5
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Brunet, II, col. 1319 -- Oberlé, Poètes néo-latins, n° 114
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