Lettera dell’Abate Andrea Zannoni Custode perpetuo della Biblioteca Comunale di Faenza Accademico Italiano al Ch. Sig. Abb. Gio. Battista Zannoni, Secondo Bibliotecario della Magliabecchiana, contenente la relazione di alcune Edizioni del Secolo XV. no conosciute finora dai Bibliografia.
[Faenza]: presso Michele Conti, 1808. Item #1137 8vo. 196 x 125 mm., (7 ¾ x 5 inches). 46, 2 pp. Modern wrappers. From the Library of Tammaro De Marinis. Only edition. Rare pamphlet written by the librarian of Faenze and addressed to a young Gio. Battista Zannoni (1774-1832), “Second Librarian” at the Biblioteca Magliabecchiana in Florence, who was to become the Director of the Uffizi Gallery. I have not been able to identify Andrea Zannoni, but based on his date of birth, (1754-1811), he maybe the uncle of Giovanni Battista. In this rare work, Andrea Zannoni examines twenty-three books printed in Italy during the fifteenth-century and provides bibliographical details that helps to identify where a particular edition fits in the publishing history of a given title. For example, the first book that Zannoni describes is Nicolai de Tudeschis edition of Consilia, which he identified as being printed in Ferrara, by Petrus de Aranceyo and Johannes de Tornaco in 1475. He does so by making a detailed description of the type face, the composition of the type on the page, the number lines of type per page, the quality of the paper stock, &c., and then discusses the work of printers work in Ferrara in the 1470’s and concludes based on other works printed by Aranceyo and Tornaco, that this unsigned edition is by this pair of printers. Zannoni also cites the bibliographical work of Giovanni Battista Audiffredi and his catalogue of the collections of early printed books in the Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome, which was the copy which he examined. Besterman World Bibliography of Bibliographies, 3343-4. British Library, Incunable Short Title-Catalogue, item ip00029500. Rare: OCLC cites copies at the Grolier Club and the Newberry Library only.
Price: $750.00