The Roxburghe Club

SEARCH FOR BOOKS FOR SALE

Enter either a sale item name or price to search the database:

BOOKS FOR SALE

Roxburghe Club publications are produced in two states. Each member of the Club receives a copy bound in half calf. In the list of members of the Club, each recipient's name is printed in red ink. Normally, not more than 42 copies are printed in this form. Additionally a member can print up to 300 copies of the title usually bound in cloth. These are available for sale, usually through the antiquarian bookdealers listed below.

Maggs Brothers, 50 Berkeley Square, London W1J 5BA
Telephone: + 44 (0) 20 7493 7160
Fax: + 44 (0) 20 7499 2007
Email: robert@maggs.com
Attention of: Robert Harding

Bernard Quaritch Limited, 8 Lower John Street, Golden Square, London W1F 9AU
Telephone: + 44 (0) 20 7734 2983
Fax: + 44 (0) 20 7437 0967
Email: rarebooks@quaritch.com

Henry Sotheran Limited, 2 Sackville Street, Piccadilly, London W1S 3DP
Telephone: + 44 (0) 20 7439 6151
Fax: + 44 (0) 20 7434 2019
Email: books@sotherans.co.uk

IL QUADRIREGIO.

Sale Notes

Price: £375.00

Sale Vendor

Quaritch

Notes

By Federico Frezzi, with an Essay by B. H. Breslauer. Facsimile based on the edition printed in Florence in 1508. The Roxburghe Club ,1998.

This is the first facsimile reproduction of one of the greatest Florentine illustrated books of the Renaissance – Il Quadriregio is to Florentine book illustration what the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili is to Venetian. The only surviving work of Federico Frezzi (c. 1350–1416), bishop of Foligno, the text is an allegorical poem in the vernacular, describing a journey through four regions: Love, Satan, Vice, and Virtue. The Earl of Crawford’s copy, one of only two remaining in private hands, is reproduced here in its entirety.

The prefatory essay, by Bernard Breslauer, not only treats the book, its remarkable publisher Piero Pacini, and its place in the history of Florentine book illustration, but considers how it has been assessed by the critics and art historians of the last hundred years.

Select a sale item to view the details:

• HERALDO MEMORIALE. OR MEMOIRS OF THE COLLEGE OF ARMS FROM 1727 TO 1744.
• VOLTAIRE. THÉRÈSE, A FRAGMENT.
• ASPECTS OF FRENCH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TYPOGRAPHY. By John Dreyfus.
• THE GARDYNERS PASSETAUNCE (c. 1512).
• REMEMBRANCES OF THINGS WORTH SEEING IN ITALY GIVEN TO JOHN EVELYN 25 APRIL 1646.
• TWO EAST ANGLIAN PICTURE BOOKS.
• THE LAST YEARS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
• SIR THOMAS SMITH’S MISMANAGEMENT OF THE VIRGINIA COMPANY BY NICHOLAS FERRAR.
• SYON ABBEY.
• JAMES BOSWELL’S BOOK OF COMPANY AT AUCHINLECK.
• IL QUADRIREGIO.
• THE SEARCH FOR THE SOURCE OF THE NILE.
• JAN HUYGEN VAN LINSCHOTEN AND THE MORAL MAP OF ASIA.
• THE GREAT BOOK OF THOMAS TREVILIAN.
• RONALD FIRBANK. LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER, 1920-24 and LA PRINCESSE AUX SOLEILS.
• THE TOLLEMACHE BOOK OF SECRETS.
• THE WIZARD EARL’S ADVICES TO HIS SON.
• FRAGMENTA REGALIA. OBSERVATIONS OF THE LATE QUEENE ELIZABETH, HIR TIMES AND FAUORITES.
• THE ARUNDEL CHOIRBOOK.
• HOLKHAM LIBRARY: A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION.
• THE LIBRARY OF THOMAS TRESHAM AND THOMAS BRUDENELL.
• INIGO JONES’S ROMAN SKETCHBOOK.
• THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MR DISRAELI AND MRS BRYDGES WILLIAMS, 1851-1863.
• WALPOLE, HORACE. A Description of the Villa at Strawberry-Hill. A Facsimile of the copy extra-illustrated for Charles Bedford in the collection of Lord Waldegrave of North Hill. Edited by Nicolas Barker. The Roxburghe Club. 2010.
• JOHN SCOTTOWE’S ALPHABET BOOKS.
• BIBLIOTHECA LINDESIANA.
• THE MIRROURE OF THE WORLDE. MS BODLEY 283 (ENGLAND c. 1470-1480).