Accession number
PML 1543
Creator
Plutarch.
Published
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri, mense Augusto, 1519.
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
According to Renouard there are two editions of the same year, the first based on the Giunta edition of 1517, the second and superior edition was used by H. Estienne and others for their edition. He admits having only seen the one and does not know how to tell the difference.
Collation: 350 leaves = title and preface, 3 leaves and 1 blank; text, 345 numbered leaves and 1 leaf with register and anchor.
Edited by Franciscus Asulanus.
First Aldine edition as a separate edition.
Imprint from the colophon.
Printer's device on the title page and verso of the final leaf.
Text in Greek; some introductory material in Latin (Roman type).
Collation: 350 leaves = title and preface, 3 leaves and 1 blank; text, 345 numbered leaves and 1 leaf with register and anchor.
Edited by Franciscus Asulanus.
First Aldine edition as a separate edition.
Imprint from the colophon.
Printer's device on the title page and verso of the final leaf.
Text in Greek; some introductory material in Latin (Roman type).
Description
4, 345 leaves, [1] leaf ; 31 cm (fol.)
Provenance
Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853); his sale, Evans (London), 23 June 1834, lot 1285 to Payne for £5.0.0 for Acheson; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), armorial booklabel (front pastedown), shelf mark: C5 (front fly leaf verso); James Toovey (1814-1893), purchased Gosford's library en bloc in 1878, Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
Blue morocco by Bozerian.
Classification
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