Rime
By: di M. Pietro Bembo
Publisher: Per Maestro Giouan Antonio & Fratelli da Sabbio
Published: 1530
Place of publication: Stampate in Vinegia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 108
Notes: Title on p. [4] (leaf A2v).

Imprint from colophon (p. [105] (leaf ²C3r)).

Signatures: A-D⁸ E¹⁰, ²A-C⁴ (A1, ²A1, C4 blank).

Pages [89]-[105] consist of "stanze"; cf. dedication (p. [87]-[88]) to Ottaviano Fregoso dated Castel Durante, 1507.

Index and "Errori" for the Rime: p. [78]-[83].

EDIT 16, B-1185

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 81.

EDIT 16, CNCE 5002

Gamba, B. Testi di lingua, 141 (note)

Brunet I, col. 764

Purchase; Ranschburg; 26 March 1942; 41-3001; $50 (Sheldon fd.); bought with 41-3002.

From the library of Thomas Mahieu.

"No. 467" in ink on recto of front flyleaf; contemporary inscription on recto of rear flyleaf: "[kio?] crudel in grato latron".

Bound with: Bernardo Tasso, Libro primo de gli Amori (Venice, 1531).

Bound for Thomas Mahieu in contemporary French dark brown morocco, edges stained black; covers richly gilt- and blind-tooled to an identical panel design of interlace borders, corner rosettes, leaf tools, and a centerpiece of 4 leaf sprays; rounded spine with 3 raised bands, gilt fleur-de-lys tools, and horizontal blind filleting; front cover lettered in gilt (at top) RIME DEL BEMBO E.TAS., (at bottom) N. D.; plain endleaves (2 at front, 1 at back); wanting the 2 fore-edge ties; in case of half black calf and tan cloth, 24 cm.  The binding is similar to those in Hobson's Group I; cf. G.D. Hobson, Maioli, Canevari and others (London: Benn, 1926), p. 37-38.