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FAERNUS, GABRIEL. 1510-1561. Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctoribus delectae. Rome: Vincent Luchino, 1563. image 1
FAERNUS, GABRIEL. 1510-1561. Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctoribus delectae. Rome: Vincent Luchino, 1563. image 2
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FAERNUS, GABRIEL. 1510-1561.
Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctoribus delectae. Rome: Vincent Luchino, 1563.

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FAERNUS, GABRIEL. 1510-1561.

Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctoribus delectae. Rome: Vincent Luchino, 1563.
4to (220 x 160 mm). Engraved title and 100 numbered full-page engravings after designs variously ascribed to Titian, and to Pirro Ligorio. A few plates off registration. Some light browning and staining. Contemporary Roman? red goatskin elaborately gilt, with an allover design of strapwork and small floral and ornamental hand tools, edges gilt, rebacked. Occasionally slight marginal worming.
Provenance: Herbert Eberhard Herring (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION first issue (others are dated 1564 and 1565) "several of the plates having slipped in the press" (Mortimer). Despite the Luchino imprint this issue has been proven to be the work of Paolo Manuzio. The designs have been ascribed to Titian. Harvard/Mortimer Italian 178.

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