Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

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Juvenalis, Satyrae, Paris, 1561, publisher's display binding, contemporary Parisian calf gilt

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JUVENALIS, DECIMUS JUNIUS AND AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS. Iunii Iuvenalis, et Auli Persii Flacci satyrae: iam recens recognitae, simul ac adnotatiunculis, quae brevis commentarii vice esse possint, illustratae. Paris: Jérôme de Marnef, 1561


An unrecorded reprint of earlier editions (also printed by Marnef in 1558 and later), in a contemporary publisher’s binding, with Marnef’s pelican device stamped on the covers. Versions of the device have the pelican facing right or left, as here, whereas the device on the title-page always faces right. Georges Colin lists three books with this same binding stamp (“Marques de libraires et d’éditeurs”, in Bookbindings and other bibliophily, essays in honour of Anthony Hobson, Verona, 1994, p. 104, B.1). For another binding with Marnef’s device, though as bookseller rather than printer, see Davis Gift III, 93 (Davis 424).

16mo (118 x 78 mm). Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: A-K8: 80 leaves. Woodcut printer’s device on title-page and final verso, woodcut initials. (Small paper flaw at foot of D1.)


binding: Contemporary Parisian calf gilt (124 x 87 mm), small gilt pelican stamp on covers, single gilt fillet frame, small gilt fleur-de-lys in spine compartments, gilt edges. (Extremities slightly rubbed.)


provenance: Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982), red gilt booklabel — Martin Breslauer Inc., catalogue 104/II (New York, 1981), item 173. acquisition: Purchased in 1989 from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York. references: not in BP16 or USTC

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