Les commentaires de Iulius Cesar.

Accession number: 
PML 539
Author: 
Caesar, Julius.
Published: 
Imprime a Paris : par Anthoine verad, [approximately 1500]
Description: 
[134] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf r7r: Imprime a paris par Anthoine verad [sic] libraire demourant au pres de petiti pont lymaige sainct Johan leva[n]geliste/ ou au palais au premier pillier de la gra[n]t salle pres la chappelle ou on chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
ISTC dates [between Oct. 1499 and July 1503].
Printed in Vérard's type 3:117G.
Signatures: a-p⁸ q⁶ r⁸: 134 leaves, leaf r8 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto.
9 illustrations from 7 woodcuts.
Translated by Robertus Gaguinus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.7 x 18.2 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: a1 (half-title) and r8 (blank).

Binding: 
Modern quarter dark red goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (27 x 19 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Commentaires de Julius Cesar

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required (except leaf a2r, unrealized). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), monogram booklabel and Syston Park armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), purchased Bohn, 1829; his sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 481; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding) and bibliographical notes: No. 65a, 19/1/1900 and price code: ow/-/- (rear endleaf 2 verso, preserved from previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Quarter bindings (Binding)
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Paste papers (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books