Poetae Christiani veteres, volume 2 only, Venice, Aldus, 1502, marbled calf

[Poetae Christiani veteres, volume 2]

Sedulii mirabilium divinorum libri quatuor... Elegia... Iuvenci de Evangelica historia [and other works]. (Venice: Aldus Manutius, January 1501) [preface dated June 1502]

4to (205 x 151mm.), woodcut Aldine device on 8* verso, without final blank leaf, a few manuscript annotations, later marbled calf, later slipcase, small repaired tear to first leaf, leaf b4 and quire εε eeee shorter, some staining to quire e, rebacked

This work contains THE FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT OF THE ALDINE DEVICE, that "most celebrated of all printers' marks" (Fletcher p. 43).

For another volume from this set, containing Gregorius Nazianzenus, see lot 134.

LITERATURE:

Aldo Manuzio tipografo 61; Edit16 36115 (all 3 volumes); Renouard 1502/17; UCLA 46

PROVENANCE:

Dott. Guido Sanguinetti, Bologna, engraved bookplate