Anthologia graeca, Venice, Aldus, 1503, contemporary Flemish calf

Anthologia Graeca. Florilegium diversorum epigrammatum in septem libros. [Device] Ανθολογια διαφορων επιγραμματων...

(Venice: Aldo Manuzio, October 1503)

A second copy of the Planudean Greek Anthology.

8vo (166 x 98 mm). Greek type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z⁸ AA-MM⁸ NN¹⁰: 290 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso, one line of early manuscript text at foot of B6. (Occasional light foxing, last few leaves slightly stained.)

binding: Contemporary blind-tooled Flemish calf (172 x 105 mm), inhabited roll-tooled border with the date 1526, spine with blind ruling along bands, plain edges, stubs from two pairs of ties, in modern buckram drop-backed box. (Calf delaminating, binding somewhat rubbed, rebacked retaining original spine, new endpapers.)

provenance: Laurence Witten, Southport, catalogue 17 (1981), item 2. acquisition: Purchased from Alan G. Thomas, London, 1985. references: UCLA 79; Aldo Manuzio tipografo 81; Edit16 1970; Renouard 42/9