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<dl><dd>Library's copy bound with the author's: Discorsi degli animali. In Venetia : Per Giouan. Griffio ad instantia di Pietro Boselli, 1552 -- Ragionamenti. In Venetia: Per Gio. Griffio ad instantia di Pietro Boselli, 1552</dd>
<dd>Binding: modern marbled paper, quarter black goatskin. Gold tooled title on spine: FIRENZUOLA / [rule] / DIALOGO / DELLE / BELLEZZE / ETC. // 1552 / AMAND [the binder]. Green ribbon place marker. Traces of red sprinkling on edges</dd>
<dd>Library's copy has clipping from a sales catalog tipped onto verso of front free endpaper, together with [a bookseller's?] pencilled annotations there and on the recto of the following leaf, with the date 1941. Bookplate of Eduard Grisebach centered vertically on front pastedown</dd>
<dd>First published 1548; see Brunet</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A-D¹²</dd>
<dd>Publisher (Boselli) from colophon</dd>
<dd>Griffio's device on t.p. and D11v. Initials. Woodcuts in text of women and of vases</dd>
<dd>Brunet</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)</div>
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Firenzuola, Agnolo, 1493-1543</div>
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