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[Bound with]: Dondi dall’Horologio. L’Ingratudine. Vinegia, Gioliti de’Ferrari, 1562. [And:] Dondi dall’Horologio. L’Inganno. Vinegia, Giolito de’Ferrari, 1562. 3 works in 1 volume, 8vo (152 x 94 mm). Contemporary gold-tooled olive-brown morocco over pasteboard, blind and gilt fillet border, Ruiz armorial stamp at centre flanked by his initials .I. .R., fleur-de-lis within the coat-of-arms stamped in silver, 4 double and 3 single spinebands tooled alternately with gilt fillet or short diagonals, single flower-head in compartments, the second and third with title, edges gilt and gauffered.
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Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus, p. 219, n° 9.
A fine Sammelband bound in Rome circa 1565 by the Ruiz binder for Jeronimo Ruiz.
Jeronimo Ruiz is known to posterity almost exclusively through the books surviving from his library. He was a member of a Valencian familly living at Rome, who founded a chapel in the church of S. Caterina dei Funari, where Jeronimo was buried. He was the nephew of Felipe Ruiz, secretary of the datary office, part of the papal Chancery. His library, however, reveals that he had a taste for history, principally in Italian, and suggests that his, like his older contemporary Grimaldi, was a libraria finita, acquired in a relatively short period in the 1560s to about 1571.
All but one of his extant books are octavos and quartos (one folio at the Biblioteca Braidense at Milan); all are lettered on the spine, indicating that they stood on the shelf spines outward. Ruiz was once thought to have patronised three binders, one of whom was Maestro Luigi, who also worked for Grimaldi, but Hobson has since re-attributed the bindings to a single, anonymous and now eponymous shop, the Ruiz Binder (Hobson-Culot, p.49). The Ruiz binder worked in close imitation of Maesttro Luigi and may have succeeded him.
A very fine copy.
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