Repubblica di Lucca 1400-1699.

III ediz.accresciuta dall'Autore. Roma, Fratelli Bocca Ed. 1887, cm.15x23, pp.662,15, una fotogr.bn.dell'autore in antip. rilegatura in mz.tela, tassello in pelle con titoli in oro al dorso.

Roma, Edoardo Perino Editore 1885, cm.10,5x17,5, pp.116, un ritratto inciso del B.in antip., rilegatura coeva in t.pelle, cornice ornata impressa a secco ai piatti e titoli a secco al piatto ant. Dorso con abrasioni e semidistaccato.)

Thèse pour le doctorat presentée à la Faculté des Lettres de l'Université de Lille. Paris, Librairie des Amateurs 1909, cm.15,5x24,2, pp.XII,613, rileg.coeva in mz. pergamena con angoli ai piatti in c. francese, titoli in nero al dorso. (segni d'uso alla rileg., con lacuna della carta al margine esterno del piatto ant.; buoni interni con sporadiche fioriture.) (Ediz. di 500 esempl., di cui solo 300 commercializzati.)

London, The British Library 1995, cm.15x23, pp.286, legatura editoriale, sopraccoperta. Collana The British Library Studies in the History of the Book. Testo in inglese. In this study a leading expert on the history of the early Italian book examines a perplexing and intractable problem that faces historical bibliographers - the identification of anonymous printing. Venice quickly became one of the major publishing centres of Renaissance Europe, serviced by innumerable printers. While the products of many of the presses are easily identified today, many of the surviving books offer little or no evidence as to their origins. Their title-pages may simply state "Venetiis" or "in Venetia"; the name of the publisher or bookseller may be given, but not the printer; or no information may be given at all. In such instances the bibliographer must make an identification by comparing the anonymously printed volume with known examples of a printer's work. This often proves difficult, since in Venice there was a great deal of interloaning of initials, devices and other materials between printers, who seem often to have been friends rather than rivals. Occasionally it is nearly impossible to be certain to whom a particular device really belonged. Despite these and other problems, Dennis Rhodes has succeeded in establishing the identity of the anonymous printers of over 250 different volumes in the British Library's collections. Each volume is fully described, and 150 black and white photographs of type ornaments and other identifying features are included.