CATULLUS, Gaius Valerius (ca. 84-54 B.C.). Carmina . - Albius TIBULLUS (c. 55/48-c. 19 B.C.). Elegiae . - Sextus PROPERTIUS (c. 54/57-after 16 B.C.). Elegiae . Edited by Aldus Manutius (1452-1515) and Hieronymous Avancius (d. after 1534). Venice: Aldus Manutius January 1502. 8° (153 x 90mm). Roman type (title and headings), italic type (text). (Very light spotting.) French early 19th-century blue straight-grained morocco tooled in gilt and blind, the corners and spine with pointillé decoration, marbled endpapers, vellum flyleaves, gilt edges. Provenance : numerous early annotations washed; Antoine-Auguste Renouard? (1765-1853, vellum flyleaves, binding, although not identical to copies in the catalogue of his library, 1819, p.229); C.F.L. (initials on title); Emmanuel Rodocanachi (bookplate, sale Paris, 7-8 May 1934, lot 16); Wilfred Merton (booklabel). FIRST ALDINE EDITION, first issue, with 'Propetius' on title. Fletcher ( New Aldine Studies ) has argued that the date is 'new style', i.e. January 1502, which makes it among the earliest books printed in Aldus's innovative series of libri portatiles , works of Greek and Latin classics and Italian poetry printed in octavo-format with Griffo's italic types. Adams C-1137; Renouard 39:16.
CATULLUS, Gaius Valerius (ca. 84-54 B.C.). Carmina . - Albius TIBULLUS (c. 55/48-c. 19 B.C.). Elegiae . - Sextus PROPERTIUS (c. 54/57-after 16 B.C.). Elegiae . Edited by Aldus Manutius (1452-1515) and Hieronymous Avancius (d. after 1534). Venice: Aldus Manutius January 1502. 8° (153 x 90mm). Roman type (title and headings), italic type (text). (Very light spotting.) French early 19th-century blue straight-grained morocco tooled in gilt and blind, the corners and spine with pointillé decoration, marbled endpapers, vellum flyleaves, gilt edges. Provenance : numerous early annotations washed; Antoine-Auguste Renouard? (1765-1853, vellum flyleaves, binding, although not identical to copies in the catalogue of his library, 1819, p.229); C.F.L. (initials on title); Emmanuel Rodocanachi (bookplate, sale Paris, 7-8 May 1934, lot 16); Wilfred Merton (booklabel). FIRST ALDINE EDITION, first issue, with 'Propetius' on title. Fletcher ( New Aldine Studies ) has argued that the date is 'new style', i.e. January 1502, which makes it among the earliest books printed in Aldus's innovative series of libri portatiles , works of Greek and Latin classics and Italian poetry printed in octavo-format with Griffo's italic types. Adams C-1137; Renouard 39:16.
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