Gellius, Noctium Atticarum libri undeviginta, Strassburg, 1517, later armorial calf

Gellius, Aulus

Noctium atticarum libri undeviginti [edited by Nicolaus Gerbelius]. Strassburg: Johann Knobloch for Matthias Schurer, March 1517

folio (301 x 202mm.), title printed in red within a woodcut border, woodcut initials, woodcut device below colophon, numerous early annotations, mostly in two different hands, one with small writing in brown ink, the other in red ink, later red armorial calf, a few small wormholes, occasional light staining

This copy shows close and attentive reading by several early readers, one of whom has a very elegant yet minuscule hand.

LITERATURE:

VD16 G 1035

PROVENANCE:

"Coll. Gras.", inscription on title-page; F.A. Blaydes (1846-1931), armorial bookplate; D.L. Cumming, inscription on flyleaf