Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoseon libri XV, Venice, Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Heirs of Andrea Torresano, 1534 (but September 1533), olive morocco by Grolier's Last Binder

Ovidius Naso, Publius. Quae hoc volumine continentur. Annotationes in omnia Ouidij opera. Index fabularum et caeterorum, quae insunt hoc libro secundum ordinem alphabeti. Ouidii metamorphoseon libri XV. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Heirs of Andrea Torresano, 1534 (but September 1533)

Bound by Grolier's Last Binder en suite with the Brooker copy of the third volume of this 1533–1534 third Aldine edition of Ovid's works (see lot 1270). 

8vo (165 x 98 mm, preserving deckle on a number of leaves). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: π–4π⁸ a–z⁸ A–B⁸ C4: 236 leaves (4π8 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and C4v, four- and six-line initial spaces with guide letters. (A few leaves at front with natural thinned spots or paper flaws in lower fore-edge corners, quires t–v lightly browned.)

binding: Parisian olive morocco (168 x 105 mm) by Grolier's Last Binder, 1560s, the covers richly yet sparingly gilt (employing Nixon tools [Howard Nixon, Bookbindings from the Library of Jean Grolier (London 1965)] 17a&b, 20a&b, 2a&b, 13, 14, 8, 1) with an interlacing strapwork design of curvilinear rules and floral foliate tools, with an empty oval cartouche at center and double-fillet shaped frame, all within a double-fillet border, smooth spine similarly gilt and lettered at the top OVIDY. | METAMO | PHOSEO, plain pastedowns, one vellum and four paper flyleaves at front and back, gilt edges. (Joints subtly restored.)

provenance: "22ƒ," unidentified inscription on front free endpaper, likely the same unidentified sixteenth-century owner ("Joachinnia Odin") of the third volume of this set (see lot 1270) — Bernard Skalli (?). acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris