Ovidius Naso, Fasti, Tristia, and Epistulae ex Ponto, [Lyon, Baldazare de Gabiano and/or/for Barthelemy Trot?, 1506?], nineteenth-century English red straight-grained morocco

Ovidius Naso, Publius. Publii Ouidii Nasonis, Quae hoc in libello continentur. Fastorum. Libri VI. De tristibus. Libri V. De Ponto. Libri IIII. [Lyon: Baldazare de Gabiano and/or/for Barthelemy Trot?, 1506?]

Third volume of the second Lyonese counterfeit edition.

8vo (164 x 92 mm). Italic type, 32 lines plus headline. collation: aaa–qqq⁸ rrr¹⁰ xxx–zzz⁸ AAA⁴: 190 foliated leaves. Two-, three-, and four-line initial spaces with guide letters. (Title-page stained and repaired in upper margin, several top fore-edge corners restored at front and back, some edge browning.)

binding: Nineteenth-century English red straight-grained morocco (170 x 101 mm), covers with border of triple blind fillets with gold dots at points of intersection, spine blind-tooled in six compartments with gilt roundels and rows of dots across bands, taupe-coated endpapers, vellum linings, gilt edges. (Extremities rather worn, spine darkened, front free endpaper lacking.)

provenance: Sir Edward Sullivan, 1^st Baronet (1822–1885), armorial bookplate, Sotheby's, 19 May–12 June 1890, lot 4723 — George Dunn (1865–1912), bookplate of the Woolley Hall Library, near Maidenhead; not traced in the series of auctions of his library held at Sotheby's 1913–1917 — unidentified twentieth-century armorial morocco booklabel, a fox rampant decorated with ermines, surmounted by three stars. acquisition: Purchased at Swann Galleries, 18 October 1985 ("Early Printed Books") lot 254. references: UCLA 1130 (not in collection); Baudrier, VII, 15; FB 81203; Renouard 307/13; Shaw 26; USTC 143153