Translated from the Greek by Angelo Poliziano.
The Latin volume of the first Aldine edition of Herodian's Roman History which was issued in 1524 in two parts, Greek and Latin, with distinct signatures and pagination and individual title-pages and addresses to the reader by Andrea Asulani. The text was available in either a bilingual edition comprising both parts, or separately in either Greek or Latin editions. This is the Latin text only, supplemented by the leaf containing Asulani's prefatory letter to the Greek text.
Imprint from colophon.
Includes title page, 97 numbered leaves (i.e. 194 pages), and final leaf with printer's device on verso.
Signatures: 1⁸ (+π2) 2-11⁸ 12¹⁰.
Woodcut Aldine device on 12 10v, numerous 3- and 6-line initial spaces with guide-letters. Illuminated and decorated in Paris for Jean Grolier: printer's devices illuminated in gold with red penwork decoration, guide-letters supplied in liquid gold, most with further red penwork.
Historiarum libri VIII