FIRST ITALIAN EDITION OF THIS VAST HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL WORK ON THE LIVES OF THE FATHERS, SAINTS AND MARTYRS, EDITED BY ABBOT BUTLER

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Butler, Alban. Vite dei padri, dei martiri e degli altri principali santi tratte dagli atti originali e da' più autentici monumenti con note istoriche e critiche. Opera dall'originale inglese dell'ab. Albano Butler recata liberamente in francese dall'ab. Gian-Francesco Godescard e dal francese giusta l'ultima edizione di Versailles 1818 a 1820 fedelmente volgarizzata ed arricchita di alcune aggiunte. Tomo 1. [-20.]. Venezia: presso Giuseppe Battaggia tip. edit., 1823-1826.

8vo (212x134 mm); half leather binding with corners, marbled paper at boards, gilt decorations and title on a blue leather label at spine, silk ribbon bookmarks; 20 vols bound in 16 tomes; pp. 242; 243-550; 324; 370; 390; 493, (1 bianca); 487, (1 bianca); 456, 636, 448, 636, 499, (1 bianca); 423, (1 bianca); 626, 471 (1 bianca); 272, 16.
Title-pages in black types; each volume has a double title-page; the second one has the indication of the month. Volumes 6 and 7, 8 and 9, 11 and 12, 14 and 15 are bound together.
Indexes at last volume.

The work includes also, with its own title-page:
Delle feste mobili digiuni e altre annuali osservanze della Chiesa cattolica;
Vite dei santi;
Vita dell'ab. Albano Butler.

In the work there are many dedications: to Cardinal Mauro Cappellari; to Giuseppe Maria Peruzzi, Bishop of Vicenza; to Giuseppe Sommariva.


Alban Butler (13 October 1710 - 15 May 1773) was an English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer, author of the monumental work The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints (1756-59).

References: IT\ICCU\TO0E\044847. OCLC, 797407163. No copy out of Italy.

Traces of use to the binding, abrasions to the leather and to the paper of the boards; presence of occasional foxing; overall, copy in good condition.