Perotti, Cornucopiae, Venice, Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, March 1527, eighteenth-century English(?) calf with gilt border

Perotti, Niccolò. In hoc volumine habentur haec. Cornucopiae, siue linguae Latinae commentarij diligentissime recogniti, atque ex archetypo emendati. Index copiosissimus dictionum omnium … Eiusdem Sypontini libellus, quo Plynii epistola, ad Titum Vespasianum corrigitur.Cornelij Vitelij in eum ipsum Sypontini libellum annotationes. M. Terentij Varronis de lingua latina libri tres. Quartus. Quintus. Sextus. Eiusdem De analogia libri tres. Sexti Pompei Festi undeuiginti librorum fragmenta. Nonij Marcelli Compendia, in quibus tertia ferè pars addita est … idque labore, & diligentia Iucundi nostri Veronensis, qui in Gallia Nonium cum antiquis contulit exemplaribus. Additus … longa dissertatio de generibus. Huc accedunt castigationes … Michaelis Bentini … Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, March 1527

Folio (298 x 203 mm). Italic type, 62 lines plus headline, text in two columns. collation: π-9π⁸ 10π¹⁰ a-z⁸ A-Y⁸ Z⁶ Aa⁸ (10π10 a blank): 456 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page, versos of K8 and Y8, and final verso, early marginalia. (Scattered foxing, browning, and staining, occasional dampstaining, significant but primarily marginal staining L1 offsetting on to verso of K8.)

binding: Eighteenth-century English calf (310 x 220 mm), covers with border of gilt floral leaf tools, spine with raised bands in seven compartment, gilt-lettered red morocco label to second, others with repeat overall decoration in in gilt, edges stained green, marbled endpapers. (Rubbed, joints weak.)

acquisition: Purchased from Thomas Thorp, St Albans, 1982. references: UCLA 242; Renouard 103/1; Edit16 53685; USTC 847597