LIVIUS, Titus (50 BC-AD 17). Las quatorze decadas de Tito Livio, Hystoriador de los Romanos : trasladadas agora nuevamente de latin en nuestra l é ngua Castellana. Saragossa: George Coci Alemã, 24 May 1520.
LIVIUS, Titus (50 BC-AD 17). Las quatorze decadas de Tito Livio, Hystoriador de los Romanos : trasladadas agora nuevamente de latin en nuestra l é ngua Castellana. Saragossa: George Coci Alemã, 24 May 1520. 2º (298 x 205mm). Gothic letter, forty-five lines to a full page. Title printed in red beneath large woodcut arms of the Emperor Charles V, printed in red, black, yellow and light blue; full-page woodcut of a monarch on his throne on title verso, probably intended for Charles V receiving the book. Numerous fine half-page woodcuts. Colophon in red and black, with woodcut printer's device. (Lacks the fourth leaf containing 'La Declaracion de algunos vocablos', title repaired along margins of verso, dedicatory epistle with tear into text, similar tears at ff. 104, 146, 180 and 295, other marginal tears, some creasing, marginal soiling, occasional waterstaining, some darker stains towards end, final few leaves wormed at bottom margin.) 17th-century limp vellum with manuscript title on spine (ties defective). ' MAGNIFICO VOLÚMEN ,' in Salva's words, 'sin disputa el más perfecto que salió de las prenas del distinguido Jorge Coci'. Palau agrees, noting that the numerous woodcuts are copied from J. Schoeffer's Mainz edition of 1505. Although the translator's name does not appear anywhere, this edition was edited by Fray Pedro de la Vega, who dedicates the work to the Emperor Charles V, and it is quite possible it is he, and not Lopez de Ayala, who was the translator. A point of interest is the title-page in colours, an early specimen of four-colour printing. James Lyell reproduces some of the woodcuts in Early Book Illustration in Spain , where he describes this work as 'a substantial and imposing folio volume of upwards of 500 leaves, it is one of the most finely printed books of the period. Throughout the book there are a large number of spirited half-page cuts. This edition of Livy is rarely found in perfect condition, the coloured title-page being generally missing.' Salva notes that there was another folio edition at Cologne, 1553, and a last edition in Madrid 1796 in 5 quarto volumes. Maggs. Cat. 552 (1931), 794; Salva 2786: 'la edicion est rarísima'; Palau VII,139128.
LIVIUS, Titus (50 BC-AD 17). Las quatorze decadas de Tito Livio, Hystoriador de los Romanos : trasladadas agora nuevamente de latin en nuestra l é ngua Castellana. Saragossa: George Coci Alemã, 24 May 1520.
LIVIUS, Titus (50 BC-AD 17). Las quatorze decadas de Tito Livio, Hystoriador de los Romanos : trasladadas agora nuevamente de latin en nuestra l é ngua Castellana. Saragossa: George Coci Alemã, 24 May 1520. 2º (298 x 205mm). Gothic letter, forty-five lines to a full page. Title printed in red beneath large woodcut arms of the Emperor Charles V, printed in red, black, yellow and light blue; full-page woodcut of a monarch on his throne on title verso, probably intended for Charles V receiving the book. Numerous fine half-page woodcuts. Colophon in red and black, with woodcut printer's device. (Lacks the fourth leaf containing 'La Declaracion de algunos vocablos', title repaired along margins of verso, dedicatory epistle with tear into text, similar tears at ff. 104, 146, 180 and 295, other marginal tears, some creasing, marginal soiling, occasional waterstaining, some darker stains towards end, final few leaves wormed at bottom margin.) 17th-century limp vellum with manuscript title on spine (ties defective). ' MAGNIFICO VOLÚMEN ,' in Salva's words, 'sin disputa el más perfecto que salió de las prenas del distinguido Jorge Coci'. Palau agrees, noting that the numerous woodcuts are copied from J. Schoeffer's Mainz edition of 1505. Although the translator's name does not appear anywhere, this edition was edited by Fray Pedro de la Vega, who dedicates the work to the Emperor Charles V, and it is quite possible it is he, and not Lopez de Ayala, who was the translator. A point of interest is the title-page in colours, an early specimen of four-colour printing. James Lyell reproduces some of the woodcuts in Early Book Illustration in Spain , where he describes this work as 'a substantial and imposing folio volume of upwards of 500 leaves, it is one of the most finely printed books of the period. Throughout the book there are a large number of spirited half-page cuts. This edition of Livy is rarely found in perfect condition, the coloured title-page being generally missing.' Salva notes that there was another folio edition at Cologne, 1553, and a last edition in Madrid 1796 in 5 quarto volumes. Maggs. Cat. 552 (1931), 794; Salva 2786: 'la edicion est rarísima'; Palau VII,139128.
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