Accession number
PML 20939
Published
Emprynted in the cytie of Anwarpe : By me, Joh[a]n Doesborcke dwellyng at ye the camerporte, [1518?]]
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes
Imprint from colophon (leaf F3v): Thus endeth the Lyfe of Virgilius with many dyvers consaytes that he dyd Emprynted in they Cytie of Anwarpe [sic] By me Joh[a]n Doesborcke dwellynge at [th]e camerporte.
Date from STC.
Signatures: A-B⁶ C⁴ D⁶ E⁴ F⁴: 30 leaves.
First word of title is xylographic.
Original issue.
Date from STC.
Signatures: A-B⁶ C⁴ D⁶ E⁴ F⁴: 30 leaves.
First word of title is xylographic.
Original issue.
Description
[30] leaves : ill (woodcuts) ; 18 cm (4to)
Provenance
[Previously bound in a Sammelband with 11 other titles, including Frederyke of Jennen (now PML 20938), see Proctor, Jan Van Doesborgh, Printer at Antwerp, no. 16] James West, his sale, Langford, 29 March 1773, lot 1851, to Ratcliffe for £2.17.6; John Ratcliffe, his sale (with volume broken up), Christie, 27 March 1776; John Ker, Duke of Roxburghe, his sale, Evans, 18 May 1812, lot 6376 for £54.12.0; George Spencer Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (White Knights Library), his sale, Evans, 7 June 1819, lot 4595 to Rodd for £1.7.0 (Proctor says to Triphook for £29.8.0); George Hibbert, his sale, Evans, 16 March 1829, lot 8400 to Thorpe for Heber for £29.18.6; Richard Heber, his sale, Sotheby, pt. IX, 11 April 1836, lot 3145 to Thorpe for Christie Miller for £25.10.0; Christie Miller/Britwell Court sale, Sotheby, 1919, to Bernard Quaritch; J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased from Quaritch, 1920.
Binding
Twentieth-century dark brown calf, red label; Roxburghe arms from earlier binding set into inner board. In brown linen case.
Classification
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