Authors starting with Z from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe, 1768. First edition. 22cm; xii, 401, [1] pages. Printer's vignette on title page. Bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Extremities quite worn, marble paper pulled away from base of upper board with loss. Text rather clean, with negligible foxing at first and last pages. Reference: Gamba 2514 (citing Parini, "nulla v'ha di simile fra le Poetiche moderne"). ... more information

Milano: Giuseppe Marelli, 1774. 12mo (16cm); 118 pages. Attractive woodcut and typographic ornaments. Bound in full mottled calf, tooled in gilt on spine. Binding somewhat worn, hinges split but holding. Text shaken in binding. Speckled edges. Graceful 18th-century poetry on philosophical and political themes in Italian and Latin. ... more information

[Philadelphia]: Scott Paper Company, [1964]. First edition. 48 cm; 6 plates and 5 (of 6) guard sheets with descriptive letterpress. Plates exhibit types designed by Hermann Zapf with the assistance of his wife, Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, for the Scott Paper Company, Printing and Converting Papers Division. Enclosed in paper portfolio embossed with title and raptor design. Portfolio rather worn at edges, and stained on upper wrap at lower left corner. Contents thumbed but generally very good. Each plate fea... more information

Moscow: Izdanie Vserossiiskogo teatralnogo obshchestva, 1934. First edition. 4to (31 cm); xlvii p., 195 p. of plates, 199-211 pages. Text in Russian. Original cloth, quite worn, backstrip perished; lacks dustrwrapper. Condition noted. ... more information

Florence: Le Monnier, 1947. First edition. 21 cm; 299 pages. Original printed wraps. Mostly unopened. Owner's blindstamp on front blank. Spine tanned by sunlight. Shelf wear only. With essays on Goldoni, Gozzi and Parini. ... more information