Dictorum et factorum meorabilum tam Romanorum, quam extremorum Collectanea... , Paris: Jean Petit for [Ambroise Girault], 1535, title-page within woodcut architectural border and with printer's woodcut device, woodcut floral cribl� initials throughout, amateur paper repair to lower outer margin of title with paper loss touching printed border only, some wormholes to lower outer corners throughout with running wormhole slightly affecting some text and side-notes of early leaves, scattered light browning and minor damp fraying to extremities of a few early leaves, old manuscript provenance note to front free endpaper, 'Bought at Sotheby's - from the library of Archbishop Tenison, 1862', armorial bookplate of John Ynyr Burges to front pastedown, contemporary(?) Venetian gilt-panelled calf with central interlaced arabesque design with scalloped corner-pieces, professional modern reback and corner restoration, folio Thomas Tenison, Archbishop 1694-1715, was a notable benefactor of libraries, and the founder of Archbishop Tenison's Library at St Martin-in-the-Fields. His Library was sold by Sotheby and Wilkinson, 3-8 June 1861. (1)
Dictorum et factorum meorabilum tam Romanorum, quam extremorum Collectanea... , Paris: Jean Petit for [Ambroise Girault], 1535, title-page within woodcut architectural border and with printer's woodcut device, woodcut floral cribl� initials throughout, amateur paper repair to lower outer margin of title with paper loss touching printed border only, some wormholes to lower outer corners throughout with running wormhole slightly affecting some text and side-notes of early leaves, scattered light browning and minor damp fraying to extremities of a few early leaves, old manuscript provenance note to front free endpaper, 'Bought at Sotheby's - from the library of Archbishop Tenison, 1862', armorial bookplate of John Ynyr Burges to front pastedown, contemporary(?) Venetian gilt-panelled calf with central interlaced arabesque design with scalloped corner-pieces, professional modern reback and corner restoration, folio Thomas Tenison, Archbishop 1694-1715, was a notable benefactor of libraries, and the founder of Archbishop Tenison's Library at St Martin-in-the-Fields. His Library was sold by Sotheby and Wilkinson, 3-8 June 1861. (1)
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