Lot 936: BODONI, Giambattista (1740-1813) -- Giuseppe de LAMA. Vita del cavaliere Giambattista Bodoni

BODONI, Giambattista (1740-1813) -- Giuseppe de LAMA. Vita del cavaliere Giambattista Bodoni, tipografo italiano, e catalogo cronologico delle sue edizioni. Parma: Stamperia Ducale [widow Bodoni], 1816.

4 o (255 x 180 mm). PRINTED ON FINE WOVE PAPER, one of 12 copies. Two engraved frontispieces. Contemporary gold-tooled red-morocco-backed orange boards, uncut. Provenance: conte Gaetano Melzi (1783-1851, owner of one of the finest Italian libraries formed in the 19th century), bookplate -- commendatore Tammaro de Marinis (1878-1969, pencil note signed by B.H. Breslauer recording this purchase from him).

FINE SPECIAL-PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of the first comprehensive bibliography and biography of Bodoni, with a most distinguished provenance. Giampiero Giani, Autentiche edizioni Bodoniane pp. 1-2. (2)