Volume 2

A complete catalogue of all the publications of the Elsevier presses at Leyden, Amsterdam, the Hague, and Utrecht / by Edmund Goldsmid.

  • Goldsmid, Edmund (Edmund Marsden)
Date:
1886-1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A complete catalogue of all the publications of the Elsevier presses at Leyden, Amsterdam, the Hague, and Utrecht / by Edmund Goldsmid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    La Pvttana errante overo diologo, di Madelena é Giulia, di M. P. Aretino, cognominato il flagello de principi, il veritiro el divino. 8vo. Under this date of 1660 there exist two editions corresponding page for page, and almost line for line. The first and handsomest may be recognised by the long z used in many mar- ginal notes. It is to this edition that the Puttana Errante belongs. This is not the general opinion, but any one who takes the trouble to compare the type used in the latter. with the notice to the reader (pp. 9-12), will see that this must be so. Besides, the pages have each 31 lines, and the paper is absolutely identical, Renouard thought the Puttana in 38 pp. was the original, and Berard, Brunet, Pieters, and others have followed him. Millot, however, and more especially Willems, have pointed out the above conclu- sive reasons for believing that the Puttana of 38 pages belongs to the second edition of the Regionamenti, whilst the Puttana in 54 pages belongs to the first edition, Probably the reason one sometimes finds the 38 page Puttana bound up with the first edition of the Ragionamenti is that the latter was issued alone, and many purchasers, afterwards unable to ‘secure the first edition of the Puttana, added to it the second. ‘The first edition was evidently printed by Jean Elzevier; the second by Daniel in 1668. (See catalogue of 1674). The question as to the bookseller for whom the Elzeviers printed the Ragionamenti seems to
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