Italian, fifteenth century
Venetian binding, blind-tooled goatskin, fifteenth century.
| Author: | Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo |
| Title: | [De civitate Dei. Italian]. |
| Published: | Venice?: Antonio Miscomini?, not after 1483. |
| Location: | Rare Books: Incunabula Collection (ExI) |
| Call number: | Oversize 2815.311.502q |
| Spine height: | 31 cm |
Italian, sixteenth century
Blind-tooled red goatskin, early sixteenth century.
| Author: | Lascaris, Constantine, 1434-1501? |
| Title: | Graecae institutiones. |
| Published: | Ferrara: Giovanni Mazzocchi, 1510. |
| Location: | Rare Books (Ex) |
| Call number: | 2512.564.2 |
| Spine height: | 22 cm |
Italian, sixteenth century
Sometimes referred to as a schoolbook type of binding, this sixteenth-century undecorated half-leather binding over beech boards is from the affordable end of the book trade.
| Author: | Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. |
| Title: | Epistole Heroides Ovidii. |
| Published: | Venice, 1515. |
| Location: | Rare Books (Ex) |
| Call number: | Oversize 2893.342.015q |
| Spine height: | 32 cm |
Italian, sixteenth century
Fine gold-tooled brown goatskin, mid-sixteenth century.
| Author: | Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 |
| Title: | Thomas super Esaiam. |
| Published: | Lyons: Jean Crespin, 1531. |
| Location: | Rare Books (Ex) |
| Call number: | BS1515 .T56 1531 |
| Spine height: | 17 cm |
Italian, sixteenth century
This design motif, with simple gold lines and small gold-tooled corner and centerpiece elements, appears on a number of Aldine books, leading some scholars to assume that Aldo Manuzio had a close association with a particular binding shop and may have offered books for sale in such bindings.
| Author: | Caesar, Julius |
| Title: | [Works. 1513]. |
| Published: | Venice: Aldo Manuzio & Andreas Torresanus, 1513. |
| Location: | Rare Books (Ex) |
| Call number: | 2826.1513 |
| Spine height: | 17 cm |
Italian, seventeenth century
A fanfare binding, early seventeenth century.
| Author: | Euripides |
| Title: | [Works. 1602]. |
| Published: | Geneva: Paul Estienne, 1602. |
| Location: | Rare Books: Graphic Arts (GAX) |
| Call number: | PA3974 .A2 1602 |
| Spi ne Height: | 24 cm |
Italian, seventeenth century
A fan design, in contrast to a fanfare, late seventeenth century.
| Author: | Zani, Valerio, conte, d. 1696 |
| Title: | Memorie, imprese e ritratti de'Signori Accademici Gelati di Bologna. |
| Published: | Bologna: Per li Manolessi, 1672. |
| Location: | Rare Books (Ex) |
| Call number: | N7710 .Z29 |
| Spine height: | 22 cm |
Italian, eighteenth century
Italian publishers also had books sewn and covered with simple but beautiful papers, employing various decorative techniques, including block stamping and stenciling.
| Author: | Clement XIV, Pope, 1705-1774 |
| Title: | Lettere interessanti. |
| Published: | Lugano: Agnelli, 1776-1777. |
| Location: | Rare Books (Ex) |
| Call number: | 1552.696.2514.25 |
| Spine height: | 22 cm |