Crabbe, Tomus tertius conciliorum omnium, Cologne, 1567, contemporary Roman binding for Pope Pius V by the Vatican Bindery

Volume 3 (only, of 4), folio (338 x 215 mm). Text in double columns, roman and italic type, 63 lines plus headline. collation: *² A-4H⁶ 4I⁴: 558 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page. (Dampstaining and some worming throughout.)

binding: Roman binding by Vatican Bindery for Pius V (345 x 277 mm), c. 1567, crimson morocco over wooden boards profusely gilt, border composed of a ropework and arabesque tool with a cruciform flower centre, flanked by gilt and blind fillets, in the inner corners gilt metal bosses, in centre large papal arms, "PIVS V. PON MAX" lettered underneath, surrounded by large oval cartouche composed of double semi-circles intersecting at head and foot of cartouche, and intertwined with single curved and swirling lines with leafy and arabesque terminals, large solid arabesque cornerpieces, the interstices filled with stars, marguerites, triple dots, leafy and floral tools, on lower cover, in an inserted oblong compartment above the arms the title "CONCILI|OR.T.III" lettered in gilt, spine with 5 bands, gilt lacework tool in compartments, edges gilt, title on fore-edge in elegant Roman capitals with the papal arms at each end, gauffered in red, in nineteenth-century marbled slipcase. (Section of lower board containing gilt lettering "CONCILI|OR.T.III" inserted at a later date, upper board with small repair to upper-left of gilt arms, lacking 2 clasps.)

provenance: Pope Pius V (Ghislieri, r. 1566-1572), arms on binding—Collegio Pontificio Internazionale Angelico, nineteenth-century circular stamp on title-page—Sotheby's, London, 9-10 June 1920, lot 421 (part lot; offered with volume IV of the set), to—Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue of English and foreign bookbindings (London, 1921), item 308—Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982), bookplate and 1966 exhibition label, Rudolf Adolph, Hans Fürstenberg (Aschaffenburg, 1960), p. 63 (illustrated)—Martin Breslauer Inc., Catalogue 104/II, no. 180. acquisition: Purchased in 1990 from Martin Breslauer Inc. references: USTC 698718; VD16 ZV 3943; De Marinis, Die italienischen Renaissance-Einbände der Bibliothek Fürstenberg (Hamburg, 1966), pp. 74-75. exhibited: Musée d’art et d’histoire, Collection Jean Furstenberg: 3 mai-5 juin 1966 (Geneva, 1966), no. 21