Accession number:
PML 15422
Published:
Basileæ : In ædibus Ioannis Frobenii ; 1520
Credit:
Purcahsed by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description:
[12], 70, [14] p. ; 30 cm
Notes:
Title within woodcut border; first page of dedicatory epistle (Sig. A2) and first page of text (Sig. a) within woodcut borders.
"Apelles olim..." border designed by Ambrose Holbein (signed AH), the other printed illustrations by Hans Holbein the Younger.
Printer's mark on f6, verso (facsimile reprint in H. W. Davies Devices of the early printers, 1457-1560, p. 291). Variant form of mark on G6, verso.
First edition.
"Emendationes Velleianae ex codice vetusto", by J. A Burerius: p. [73]-[82].
Noted in L. C. Cat. and Brit. Mus. Cat.
Colophon, f6 recto: Basileæ in aedibus Io // annis Frobenii men // se Nouembri. Anno // [bar] // M. D. XX.
Binding:
16th-century French calf, elaborately gilt tooled for Grolier, with name and motto on covers.
Provenance:
Jean Grolier, binding; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Badin, 1907.
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