Le Rime Di Francesco Petrarca. PETRARCA (Francesco).

Corrette Sovra I Testi Migliori. Si Aggiungono Le Considerazioni Rivedute E Ampliate Di Alessandro Tassoni Le Annotatazioni Di Girolamo Muzio E Le Osservazioni Di Lodovico Antonio Muratori. Prima Edizione Romana.

Engraved frontispiece.

Two volumes. Large 8vo. [237 x 150 x 80 mm]. xxxv, [i], 543 pp; 412pp. Bound in contemporary vellum over boards, smooth spines divided into five panels, lettered in the second and numbered in the fourth on brown goatskin labels, the others with a gilt trophy centre tool, plain endleaves, uncut edges. (Loss to both labels on vol.2, short split to head of lower joint on vol.1)
Roma: Nella Stamperia de Romanis, 1821

The sixth Muratori edition, revised, using the Comino edition of 1732 and the Marsand edition of 1819-20. A very good clean copy. With the booklabel of Carberry Tower Library and shelf-marks "EE:9". The estate, outside of Musselburgh in East Lothian, passed into the Elphinstone family in 1801. John Elphinstone, 13th Lord Elphinstone (1807-1860) served as Governor of Madras and Bombay. Sydney Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone, married Lady Mary Bowes-Lyon, sister of Queen Elizabeth. With the bookplate of Giorgio Fanan. Maggs Bros. acquisition cost code of £100 dated 1984 and price of £180. Bought by Ian Macgregor in June 1992.

Stock no. ebc7694