Plutarch

2 volumes, 8vo (154 x 102mm.), title within woodcut border, woodcut illustrations, full-page woodcut device of St Peter at end of volume 1, smaller woodcut device at end of volume 2, panels of a contemporary Roman calf binding with gilt arabesque decoration laid down on later bindings, edges gilt and gauffered to a knotwork design, in a single slipcase

Giuseppe Bolasco, bookplates; Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum, booklabel

Censimento 16 CNCE 23131; Sander 5792

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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The tools and overall design of the binding panels are very similar to bindings executed by Niccolò Franzese and Marcantonio Guillery in Rome, both of whom produced Apollo and Pegasus bindings for Grimaldi. For comparable bindings and tools, see Henry Davis Gift 305, Hobson Apollo and Pegasus 79 and 131, and De Marinis 656.