Accession number:
PML 393
Published:
Milan : Guillermus Le Signerre, in part for Johannes de Legnano, 20 Jan. 1498.
Description:
(4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Some copies have the device of Johannes de Legnano as publisher in place of that of Le Signerre on fol. 1a. These copies have the title 'Appicius Culinarius' and prelims containing a letter by Blasius Lancilotus to Bartholomaeus Merula and a poem of Ludovicus Vopiscus. Copies with Le Signerre's device have the title 'APICIVS IN RE QVOQVINARIA' and prelims with a letter of Antonius Motta to Johannes Mollus, and poems of Motta and Bernardinus Mollus (GW note, BMC).
ISTC note: PML (var).
Checklist: "JPM 393."
Binding:
18th-19th-century olive morocco, bound in England.
Provenance:
John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), monogram booklabel and Syston Park armorial bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 140; William Horatio Crawford, Lakelands, Cork (1815?-1888), bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Quaritch, 12 March 1891, lot 123, to Quaritch; William Morris, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith (1834-1896), booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett Collection, 1902.
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