Florio’s Italian Dictionary: Queen Anna's New World of Words (1611)
FLORIO, Giovanni [John] (1562-1625)
Queen Anna's New World of Words, or Dictionary of the Italian and English Tongues. London: Printed by Melch. Bradwood for Edw. Blount and William Barret, 1611
Florio and Shakespeare shared the Earls of Southampton and Pembroke as patrons. Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost quotes an Italian proverb directly from one of Florio's earlier collections of Italian phrases. And Shakespeare’s The Tempest appropriates passages from Florio’s translation of Montaigne’s Essays.
Second edition. Two parts in one volume, First title within architectural woodcut border and second title with woodcut device.
Contemporary full calf, with coat of arms to both covers, rebacked and corners repaired. Lacking the frontis portrait of Florio by William Hole, but otherwise complete, with initial and final blanks and blank at fff4. First title a little soiled else a bright and clean copy. Collates: (xii), 1-617; (iii) blank, second title-page. L, W Stansby for Edward Blunt & William Barret, 1611, (i) blank, 617-690 (Triple column).
Provenance: William Tinker bookplate
Reference: STC 11099
FLORIO, Giovanni [John] (1562-1625)
Queen Anna's New World of Words, or Dictionary of the Italian and English Tongues. London: Printed by Melch. Bradwood for Edw. Blount and William Barret, 1611
Florio and Shakespeare shared the Earls of Southampton and Pembroke as patrons. Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost quotes an Italian proverb directly from one of Florio's earlier collections of Italian phrases. And Shakespeare’s The Tempest appropriates passages from Florio’s translation of Montaigne’s Essays.
Second edition. Two parts in one volume, First title within architectural woodcut border and second title with woodcut device.
Contemporary full calf, with coat of arms to both covers, rebacked and corners repaired. Lacking the frontis portrait of Florio by William Hole, but otherwise complete, with initial and final blanks and blank at fff4. First title a little soiled else a bright and clean copy. Collates: (xii), 1-617; (iii) blank, second title-page. L, W Stansby for Edward Blunt & William Barret, 1611, (i) blank, 617-690 (Triple column).
Provenance: William Tinker bookplate
Reference: STC 11099
FLORIO, Giovanni [John] (1562-1625)
Queen Anna's New World of Words, or Dictionary of the Italian and English Tongues. London: Printed by Melch. Bradwood for Edw. Blount and William Barret, 1611
Florio and Shakespeare shared the Earls of Southampton and Pembroke as patrons. Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost quotes an Italian proverb directly from one of Florio's earlier collections of Italian phrases. And Shakespeare’s The Tempest appropriates passages from Florio’s translation of Montaigne’s Essays.
Second edition. Two parts in one volume, First title within architectural woodcut border and second title with woodcut device.
Contemporary full calf, with coat of arms to both covers, rebacked and corners repaired. Lacking the frontis portrait of Florio by William Hole, but otherwise complete, with initial and final blanks and blank at fff4. First title a little soiled else a bright and clean copy. Collates: (xii), 1-617; (iii) blank, second title-page. L, W Stansby for Edward Blunt & William Barret, 1611, (i) blank, 617-690 (Triple column).
Provenance: William Tinker bookplate
Reference: STC 11099