Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M

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Manuzio, Antiquitatum Romanorum, Bologna, Aldo II, 1585, early nineteenth-century quarter blue morocco

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October 18, 08:42 PM GMT

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Manuzio, Paolo. Antiquitatum Romanorum … liber de comitiis. Bologna: Aldo II Manuzio, 1585

 

Median folio (335 x 222 mm). Roman type, 42 lines plus headline. collation: †2 ††4 A-N4 O6: 64 leaves. Engraved frontispiece, woodcut headpieces and initials, instance of early marginal annotation. (Scattered spots and stains, a few closed marginal tears.) 


binding: Early nineteenth-century quarter green morocco over green patterned paper-covered boards (344 x 230 mm), flat spine, compartments formed by gilt Greek key bands, second compartment with red morocco label gilt-lettered, others with repeat gilt floral device. (Worn, with some worming at spine.)

 

acquisition: Purchased from Sokol Books, London, 2018. references: UCLA 973 (not in collection); Renouard 237/13; Edit16 27261; USTC 840507

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