Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection A–C

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection A–C

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Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1562, Parisian calf gilt, Sutherland copy

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Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius. Catullus, et in eum commentarius M. Antonii Mureti. Ab eodem correcti, & scholiis illustrati, Tibullus, et Propertius (Tibullus. M. Antonii Mureti in eum scholia; Sex. Propertius. M. Antonii Mureti in eum scholia). Venice: [Paolo Manuzio], 1562


[bound with:] Tibullus cum commentario Achillis Statii Lusitani. Rome: [Paolo Manuzio], 1567


A reprint of the 1558 Muret edition of the elegiac poets (see lots 282 and 283), bound with another commentary on Tibullus by Aquiles Estaço (first published by Paolo Manuzio in 1566).


2 works in one volume, 8vo (147 x 100 mm). Italic text, 29 lines plus headline. collation: Catullus: A-T8 a-g8 [2]A-M8: 304 leaves (last leaf blank). Tibullus: A-S8: 144 leaves (last leaf blank). Woodcut Aldine devices on title-pages.


binding: Contemporary Parisian smooth calf with gilt arabesque oval centerpiece with double gilt fillet border (154 x 107 mm), flat spine richly gilt, gilt edges, small gilt armorial of the Duke of Sutherland on lower cover [British Armorial Bindings stamp 6]. (Both joints cracked, upper joint weak, spine slightly chipped and creased, corners rubbed.)


provenance: Note of purchase on flyleaf dated 1612 (mostly obscured) — Ex bibliotheca P[--] P.P.et d T., inscription on title- page (partly erased) — George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758-1833), armorial bookplate and small armorial stamp on lower cover, [possibly Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 29-31 October 1913, lot 60, "old calf...gilt"]. acquisition: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, London, 1995. references: UCLA 670 & 781; Edit16 10366 & 53992; Renouard 187/19 & 203/10

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