Iacobi Philippi Tomasini Patauini ... Petrarcha Redivivus, TOMASINI (Giacomo Filippo).

Integram Poetæ celeberrimi Vitam Iconibus ære celatis exhibens. Accessit Nobilissimæ Foeminae Lauræ Brevis Historia. Ad Eminentiss Et Reverendiss. D. Ioan. Franciscum Ex Comitibus Guidiis a Balneo S.R.E. Cardinalem, &c.

Additional engraved title, nine full-page engraved illustrations (one signed by H. David, another by Jerome David), including two portraits of Petrarch and one of Laura, and nine full-page woodcut illustrations.

First Edition. 4to. [244 x 172 x 23 mm]. [6]ff, 208, [2] pp. Bound c.1850 in vellum over boards, smooth spine divided into six panels by gilt double fillets, lettered in the second panel, plain endleaves, gilt edges. (The vellum a little mottled).
Patavii [i.e. Padua]: Typis Liuij Pasquati, & Iacobi Bortoli. Apud Paulum Frambottum, 1635

This appears to be a thick and large paper copy with wide margins. It is a very good copy of this finely printed edition. It was republished in 1650. Four copies are recorded on book auction records including the Evelyn copy in 1978 and the Beckford-Rosebery copy in 1975.

With a small circular armorial red ink stamp on the printed title and at the end of the dedication. With the bookplate (designed by William B. Scott) of Joseph Knight (1829-1907), drama critic and author of some 375 entries in the Dictionary of National Biography. He devoted his leisure to literature, collecting and reading, firstly in Leeds and then in London, where he lived at 27 Camden Square. Pencil signature of Ian Macgregor dated 1993.

Stock no. ebc7699