Justinus, Trogi Pompei externae historiae, [Lyon], [Trot], [1523], Parisian binding, ca. 1550, by Wotton Binder C

Justinus, Marcus Junianus. Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium redactae externorum imperatorum vitae aemilio Probo. [Lyon: Barthélemy Trot, 1523]

Counterfeit of the 1522 Aldine edition, in a sixteenth-century Parisian binding by "Wotton Binder C."

8vo (159 x 99 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-z⁸ A-B⁸ C⁴: 204 leaves. (Occasional light dampstaining, paper flaw at two blank corners.)

binding: Parisian olive morocco (165 x 108 mm) by Wotton Binder C, ca. 1550, covers double-ruled in gilt forming a central frame with fleurons at corners, a laurel wreath surrounding a classical male head crowned with laurel on the upper cover, female bust on the lower cover, flat spine with gilt arabesque tooling, traces of two pairs of ties, gilt edges. (Lightly rubbed, corners restored, spine gilding a bit faded, hinges cracked.)

provenance: S. Stefano, Piacenza (convent of the Ordo Clericorum Regularium a Somascha), inscription on title-page — Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982), bookplate (not in Geneva 1966 catalogue) — Martin Breslauer Inc., Catalogue 106, item 31 ($2,000). acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, 1982. references: Not in UCLA; Renouard 318/8; FB 76647; USTC 145629; Gültlingen, II, p. 111: 50