Vergil, Opera Virgiliana, Lyon, 1529, later mottled calf

Vergilius Maro, Publius

Opera virgiliana cum decem commentis... (Lyon: Jean Crespin), 1529

folio (298 x 208mm.), title printed in red and black within a woodcut border, woodcut initials and illustrations, eighteenth-century marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red edges, lacking e1, title-page damaged and repaired, e8 misbound before e2, ee3 torn at foot with slight loss, R1 torn into text without loss, woodcuts on Z5, AA4, CC6, GG5, MM5, NN5 and +7 defaced with loss, final leaf defective with loss of a few words of the colophon, some staining; sold not subject to return

A reprint of the 1517 Saçon edition (see lot 258) using the same woodblocks.

LITERATURE:

Mortimer, Harvard French 538; USTC 203548

PROVENANCE:

Judes de Saint-Pern (died 1595), Seigneur de Ligouyer, early inscriptions (one dated 1572); Victorien Sardou, Bibliothèque de Marly, bookplate; D.L. Cumming, signature on flyleaf