Softcover volume, 25.9 x 16.7 cm, in French flapped wrappers lettered “PIETRO ARETINO | SONNETS | LUXURIEUX | {garland}” unbound, 6 gatherings in 4to (24 leaves, incl. those in wrappers), a few sheets of guard tissue laid in, unpaginated, lower margin untrimmed; in a burgundy double slipcase 26.3 x 17.3 cm. Illustrated with title-page vignette, red initials and tailpieces and 16 half-page engravings by Jean Baptiste Tavy Notton. Text in Italian and French.
Title-page (red and black): SONNETS | LUXURIEUX | de | PIETRO ARETINO | dit L’ARÉTIN | avec accompagnement | de gravures au burin | d’après la description des gravures | de GIULIO PIPPI DE GIANNUZZI dit JULES ROMAIN | {vignette} | AUX DÉPENS | DE QUELQUES AMATEURS | 1948 ||
Clandestine limited edition, print run of 250 copies, of which this is copy № 20, printed on thick wove paper without watermarks.
Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 2421.
Original edition: Sonetti lussuriosi by Pietro Aretino, illustrated by Giulio Romano and engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi, published clandestinely in Venice in c.1527.
Contributors:
Pietro Aretino (Italian, 1492 – 1556) – author.
Jean Baptiste Tavy Notton (French, 1914 – 1971) – artist.
Antoine-Isidore Liseux (French, 1835 – 1894) – translator/comments.
Giulio Romano [Giulio Pippi, Giulio Giannuzzi] (Italian, c.1499 – 1546) – artist.
Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian c. 1470/82 – c. 1534) – engraver.
