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DANTE Alighieri (1265-1321). [ Divina commedia :] Le terze rime . Venice: Aldus, August 1502.
DANTE Alighieri (1265-1321). [ Divina commedia :] Le terze rime . Venice: Aldus, August 1502. The first issue of the first Aldine edition, first issue. It is the first small-format edition of this masterpiece, edited by Pietro Bembo, and published as part of Aldus's series of pocket editions for scholars. 8vo (152 x 95mm). 3-line initial spaces with guide-letter, with blank l2 (small repairs on title, tiny marginal wormtrack in the second leaf and a wormhole in the third, final gathering remargined). Red morocco by C. Glinger of Rome, gilt tooling and gilt edges; modern box. Provenance : inscription on final leaf — Count Alessandro Magnaguti, Mantua (1887-1966; bookplate). The first issue is without the Aldine anchor device which was added to the last leaf as an afterthought during the press run and it is therefore found in copies of the second issue. Other in-press corrections introduce a number of variants, including the misspelling of Alighieri on A1v (here ‘Alaghieri’) corrected in some copies, and quires a-c known in variant type-settings. Adams D-83; Ahmanson-Murphy 59; Renouard Alde 34.