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"Printing
History" Footnote:
Petrarca, Francesco. De
los remedios contra p[ro]spera y aduersa fortuna. [colophon: Sevilla: Jacobo
Cromberger,
1513]. Small folio. [6], 169 ff. (lacks final blank leaf {only}). 
the
border element appearing at the top of the title-page here (see left),
which Pablos cut down slightly and used at the top of the first title-page printed
in the New World of which an exemplar survives—on Bishop Zumárraga's
Doctrina breve muy provechosa (Mexico City, 1543). Here the type and
woodcut border are crisp and new; by the time Juan Pablos received them in the
late 1530s they were much worn, as clearly appears by the comparison of this
work with early Juan Pablos imprints.
This, Cromberger's printing of Petrarch's classic work on fortune and the
conduct of life, is widely held to be an extremely handsome production. It
begins with an elaborate woodcut title-page and presents throughout what Lyell,
in his Early Book Illustration in Spain, calls "a good example of [Cromberger's]
careful press-work and well designed decorative woodcut capitals": The second
edition printed in Spain of this translation (the first appeared 1510), it
is quite rare. 
An important book by an important writer, printed
by a famous and influential printer, and with a definite connection to the
earliest printing in the New World.
Provenance:
With the bookplate of the enigmatic Cuban book collector, Oscar Cintas.
• Palau 224247; Heredia 349; Salvá 3972; Escudero 173; Norton, A Descriptive Catalogue of Printing in Spain and Portugal, 1501-1520, 834; Anninger, Spanish and Portuguese 16th Century Books in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts [of Houghton Library: The Hofer Collection], 33. Later reverse calf (suede). Considerable onetime worming, especially in the margins but also in text; many margins repaired with paper and text areas repaired with tape which is now discoloring; all pages are now sturdy. A volume ready for reading or study.
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