1782 · Lucca
by [VERINI, Giovanni Battista]
Lucca: Salvatore & Giandomenico Marescandoli e Compagni, 1782. 18mo? (145 x 101 mm). Collation: A24 (vertical chainlines). 48 pp. Crude title woodcut of a musician serenading a woman at her window, archaic woodcut headpiece and two initials. Mostly light dampstaining (heavier at end), short marginal tear to title. Contemporary carta rustica wrappers.***
Apparently unrecorded chapbook edition of a collection of popular love poems, serenades, and other rhythmic verses, to be set to music, most if not all by the 16th-century Florentine writing and arithmetic master, poet, and self-identified bookseller Giovanni Battista Verini. As is invariably (truncated)
Apparently unrecorded chapbook edition of a collection of popular love poems, serenades, and other rhythmic verses, to be set to music, most if not all by the 16th-century Florentine writing and arithmetic master, poet, and self-identified bookseller Giovanni Battista Verini. As is invariably (truncated)