Accession number:
PML 1443
Published:
Venetiis: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri, mense Iulio M.D.XXIII [July 1523].
Description:
[8], 204, [24] leaves ; 22.5 cm (4to)
Notes:
216ff - Title, with anchor in red & prels. 8ff; Text, including the Appendix, De literis graecis ... 204 numb'd leaves; 4ff with the Introduction to Hebrew, as in the earlier editions; colophons on ff.172 & 204 with Aldine anchors on verso.
Binding:
19th-century, English dark brown morocco, with original panels of 16th-century Italian (Bologna) gold- and blind-tooled dark brown morocco laid over front and rear paper boards, sewn on 3 supports; repaired by Sandford and Clarke. Front board titled: "Grammaticha Aldi" and rear board with name "Alex: Farnesii". Polished cream paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves.
Variant Title:
Institutionum grammaticarum libri quatuor
Provenance:
Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589), binding; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), armorial booklabel (front pastedown) and shelfmark: D6 (front endleaf 1 verso), entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899. .
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