Tibullus, Opera, Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1558, morocco gilt by Storr of Grantham, Syston Park copy

Tibullus, Albius

Tibullus. M. Antonii Mureti in eium scholia (Sex. Propertius...). Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1558

2 parts in one volume, 8vo (146 x 92mm.), woodcut Aldine device on title-pages, italic type, with final blank, nineteenth-century dark purple morocco gilt by Storr of Grantham with the Aldine device stamped in gilt on covers, flat spine gilt, gilt edges, extremities slightly rubbed

This volume contains two of three parts, the third part (Catullus) not being present; Sir John Hayford Thorold also owned the 1502 Aldine Catullus, in a very similar Storr of Grantham binding, which is lot 87.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 10365 (all three parts)

PROVENANCE:

Sir John Hayford Thorold of Syston Park, bookplates (sale, Sotheby's, 20 December 1884, but this copy not found in catalogue, though lot 464 is all three parts in a similar binding to this one); Presentation inscription from J.H. Fletcher to Robert Williams dated 1865; A.R.F. Hyslop to W. Pearce, inscription dated Pershore, April 1893