Bodoni: Amaduzzi (G. C.) 1791

Bodoni press

Amaduzzi (G. C.) Iohannis Christophori Amadutii epistola ad Iohannem Baptistam Bodonium qua emendatur et suppletur commentarium de Anacreontis genere ejusque bibliotheca, First Bodoni edition, leather label of Cortlandt F. Bishop to front pastedown, lot 99 in the sale of his library in 1938, also the bookplate of Charles Edmund Merrill Jr. pasted over with label of Royal College of Art library, RCA blind stamp to title page, marbled endpapers and edges, contemporary half morocco over paper-covered boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, rubbed with loss at head of spine, small 4to, Typis Bodonianis, Parma, 1791.