Correr, Progne, tragoedia, [Venice], Accademia Veneziana, 1558, red morocco with Foscarini arms

Correr, Gregorio. Progne tragoedia, nunc primum edita. [Venice]: Accademia Veneziana, 1558

4to (206 x 145 mm). Roman type, 36 lines plus headline. collation: A⁴ a² B-G⁴: 30 leaves (last leaf blank). Engraved device on title-page.

binding: Eighteenth-century (probably Roman) red morocco (213 x 154 mm), gilt with arms of Marco Foscarini, spine gilt in compartments with black morocco lettering-piece, gilt edges. (Slight loss of some gilding, small repairs to ends of spine.)

provenance: Marco Foscarini (1696-1763, elected doge in 1762), arms on binding, sale, Venice, 1800, lot 376 ("libellus valde rarus") — Sir Robert Leighton, Replica Shoes & Co, 17 October 1960, lot 837, £9, to — Panos Gratsos, bookplate, sale, Replica Shoes 's, 27-28 September 1990, lot 22, £700, to Maggs Bros. acquisition: Purchased from Maggs, London, 1990. references: UCLA 561; Edit16 13529; Renouard 273/14