Il pastor fido : tragicomedia pastorale / Battista Guarini dedicata al ser.mo D. Carlo Emanuele duca di Savoia. & c. nelle reali nozze di S.A. con la Ser.ma infante d. Caterina d'Austria.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guarini, Battista, 1538-1612.

Contributor:

Bonfadino, Giovanni Battista, active 1586-1619, publisher.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, 1562-1630.

Charles Emmanuel.

Penn Provenance:

Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883 (stamp) (binder)

Greenhill, Harold, 1893-1968 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Gaisford, Thomas, 1779-1855 (bookplate) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

White, William Augustus,1843-1927 (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

274 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

c-l- meo. tai. ChTu (C) 1590 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : Presso Gio Battista Bonfadino, MDXC [1590]

Notes:

Woodcuts: publisher's device on t.p., historiated initials, head- and tail-pieces.

"Êdition ... regardée comme la première de cette pastorale ... Cependant il n'est pas certain que celle de Ferrare, Vittorio Baldini, 1590, pet. in-12, ne soit pas la plus ancienne." Cf. Brunet, II, 1774.

Signatures: A⁴ a² B-2L⁴.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound by Francis Bedford in full green leather with gold-tooled triple-fillet border; author, title and imprint stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; all edges gilt; binder's stamp on front lower turn-in; marbled endpapers; housed in a brown leather case by Mountenet.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Harold Greenhill (1893-1968) over that of Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855) on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. note recording the purchase of this book at the sale of Thomas Gaisford's library in 1890, on verso of front free endpaper; T. Gaisford was an English classical scholar and curator of the Bodleian Library.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. ownership inscription ("W.A. White, 10 May 1890") of book collector William Augustus White (1843-1927), followed by an inscription in another hand with bibliographic information ("Original Edition; another in 12mo was published at Ferrara[?] in the same year 1590") on front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Adams G1429

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire, II, 1774

EDIT 16 CNCE 21963

OCLC:

11221561