Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoseon libri XV, Paris, 1529, contemporary French calf with early modern owner's name gauffered along fore-edge

8vo (168 x 106 mm). Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: *⁸ 2*⁸ A-Z⁸ A-B⁸ C¹⁰: 226 leaves. Ruled in red. (Marginal repairs to title-page and final leaf, some soiling.)

binding: Contemporary French brown calf (177 x 112 mm), tooled in blind, border frame consisting of a roll of a pot with tall flower and floral ornament within 2 fillets, inner frame of hashed field within fillets, fleuron in inner corners, in centre an oval composed of 2 tools with 6 curved legs tête-bêche, 5 full bands and 2 half bands, edges gilt and gauffered, name of early modern owner gauffered down fore-edge (“IEHAN DE QVIEVREMONT”). (Rebacked with original compartments laid down.)

provenance: Jean deQuièvremont (fl. 1543-1579), with his name gauffered down fore-edge—"Adriens Vesnes", sixteenth-century ownership inscriptions to front pastedown and title-page—washed sixteenth-century ownership inscription to title-page with marginalia in the same hand—"Franciscus de Castello...", early modern ownership inscription, possibly Francisco de Castello (1556-1636), painter in Rome of the late Renaissance—"ex dono d[omi]ni du Mesnil-bourd | anno d[omi]ni 1648". acquisition: Purchased in 2011 from Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Paris. references: BP16 106074; USTC 146069