Bondelmonti_, is attributed on good evidence to De Albertis. Copies of
all three works, printed alike on vellum and bound together in one
volume, formerly in the Mac-Carthy Collection (Catalogue, Paris, 1815,
no. 3595), are now in the Bibliothèque Nationale (_Vélins_ 1964). In the
present copy of _De amoris remedio_ the manuscript signatures _b_ and
_c_, partly cut away, point to an earlier binding, in which the
_Historieta_ consisting of only twelve leaves may possibly have formed
the signature _a_.

Panzer was disposed to identify the peculiar roman type of these volumes
with that used by the fourth printer of Venice, Clemente of Padua,
between whom and Zarotto of Milan, Hain was later in doubt. But Proctor
was convinced that the small group of books to which these belong,
nearly all of them connected in some way with Florence, were the
productions of the first, so far unidentified, press of that city. The
date they bear (1471) places them among the earliest books printed in
the Italian language. Witness the following first editions: Petrarch's
Canzoniere, 1470; Il Decamerone, 1471; La Divina Commedia, 1472.

The present copy, bound in blue morocco, with the crest of the Marquis
of Blandford on side, was sold in his (White Knights) sale in 1819 for
£2. Leaf 9-1/4 × 6-3/4 in.

From the Syston Park sale, December, 1884, with book-plate and the
monogram (J.H.T.) of Sir John Hayford Thorold.


17. AESOPUS. Vita et fabulae græce. Vita et fabulae latine. Fabulae
selectae græce et latine. [Milan], Bonus Accursius, c. 1480.