Accession number
PML 1558
Creator
Mela, Pomponius.
Published
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri, mense Octobri M.D.XVIII [October 1518].
Notes
Printer's device on the title page and verso of the final leaf.
The only Aldine edition of this work. Tzschuche states that the 1517 Junta edition was used for the 1519 Junta edition, which in turn was used for the 1519 Junta edition. Renouard discounts that there was a 1517 Junta edition, but affirms that the 1519 Junta used the 1518 Aldine edition.
Edited by Francesco Torresani.
Imprint from colophon.
Italic type.
Page 128 blank, as is the next to the last unnumb. leaf.
The only Aldine edition of this work. Tzschuche states that the 1517 Junta edition was used for the 1519 Junta edition, which in turn was used for the 1519 Junta edition. Renouard discounts that there was a 1517 Junta edition, but affirms that the 1519 Junta used the 1518 Aldine edition.
Edited by Francesco Torresani.
Imprint from colophon.
Italic type.
Page 128 blank, as is the next to the last unnumb. leaf.
Description
233 numbered leaves, [3] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Unidentified owner: "A.A. Plu[???] no. 38", covered over by Toovey label (front pastedown); Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased fro £12.2.6, armorial booklabel and shelfmark: B2 (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
16th-century Italian morocco.
Classification
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