RIDOLFI, Carlo - Lot 25

RIDOLFI, Carlo Vita di Giacopo Robusti detto il Tintoretto, celebre pittore cittadino Venetiano Venice, Guglielmo Oddoni, 1642 THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF THE TINTORET, THIS ONE DEDICATED TO DOGE FRANCESCO ERIZZO ORIGINAL EDITION In-8 (228 x 155 mm). Woodcut initials, title-page vignette and headbands. COLLATION AND ILLUSTRATION: ?4 b4 A-M4 i.e. 8 f. n. ch., including an unsigned copper-engraved portrait of Tintoretto, 93 pp. 1 f. n. ch. ANNOTATION: handwritten note in brown ink on upper flyleaf nineteenth-century binding. Half vellum, marbled paper boards, quotation label in pen in corner of first board, smooth spine with title on red morocco piece, speckled red edges. PROVENANCE : Marquis Giuseppe Visconti (1797-1873; wet stamp on title page) -- Count Camillo de Grassis (1771-1848; bookplate) -- Paris, February 2, 2014, no. 99 Light staining to upper margin of several quires. BIBLIOGRAPHY : Cicognara, no. 2358