ANDRIA. Commedia.
Nella traduzione di Niccolo Machiavelli con venticinque illustrazioni di Albrecht Durer. Pp.116+[2](blank, colophon), title page vignette, text illustrations; super roy, 4to; qr. vellum, spine lettered in gilt, yellow Fabriano Roma papered boards, the upper board decorated in gilt, top fore-corner of lower board slightly bruised; t.e.g., others uncut; within green cloth slipcase, slightly flecked, edges lightly rubbed; Officina Bodoni, Verona, 1971. One of 160 numbered copies in Italian. [See Barr 87a]. *With the original prospectus loosely inserted. From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label on the upper pastedown above the earlier small bookplate, designed by Rockwell Kent, of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., former Director of the Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Machiavelli's translation of Terence's comic play. In 1493 the Basel printer Johann Amerbach planned an edition of Andria to be illustrated by Albrecht Durer, which was never completed. The present edition, published in Durer's quincentenary year, includes a postscript by Giovanni Mardersteig about the young Durer in Basel, and other contemporary illustrated editions of Terence. Copies were also issued in German (in a translation made at the age of 16 by the composer Felix Mendelssohn), and in an English translation by Richard Bernard. The 25 woodcuts by Fritz Kredel are after drawings made for the Amerbach Terence by Durer, on blocks now in the Kunstmuseum, Basel. Item #165241
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