Two new Italian printing centres of the sixteenth century

Abstract

• IN April 1980 the Department of Printed Books bought two extremely rare books, each of which adds a new town to our already very rich collection of sixteenth-century Italian imprints. While these books are not unrecorded, it is most unlikely that a copy of either of them has ever previously found its way into the British Isles, and few copies of each are known in Italian libraries.