Accession number
PML 1665.1
Creator
Virgil.
Published
Venetiis : Apud Aldi Filios, M.D.XLV [1545].
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Imprint from colophon.
Publisher's device (Aldine anchor) on t.p.
Publisher's device (Aldine anchor) on t.p.
Description
220 leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-1586), stamped armorial (title page verso) and binding, with panel title on fore-edges; Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased in 1847, armorial booklabel and shelfmark: C3 (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabeo (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
16th-century Venetian gilt-tooled brown morocco for Granvelle by the Fugger Binder, part of an order placed by Granvelle in 1547 through the Venetian bookseller Gabriele Giolito (see Bibliotheca Brookeriana, pt. 1). Gilt edges, with purplish-brown title panel and volume number.
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