Peto, De iudiciaria form. Capitolini fori ad S.P.Q.R. Libri IX, Rome, Paolo Manuzio, 1567, nineteenth-century English red morocco (possibly Storr of Grantham)

Peto, Luca. Lucae Paeti i.c. De iudiciaria form. Capitolini fori ad S.P.Q.R. Libri IX. Rome: Paolo Manuzio, 1567

The Syston Park copy.

8vo (146 x 95 mm). Roman type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: π⁴ A-Z⁸ AA-II⁸ KK-NN⁸ (lacking NN7-8): 290 (of 292) leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page, reader's marks in brown ink. (Faint dampstaining to a few leaves, scattered foxing and staining.)

binding: Nineteenth-century English red morocco (153 x 103 mm), possibly by Storr of Grantham, covers with gilt border leafy tool, inner border of multiple bling rules with rosettes at corners, gilt Aldine device on covers, flat spine with five compartments separated by gilt rules, second and third gilt-lettered, others with repeat filigree motif in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. (Extremities rubbed, spine darkened.)

provenance: Sixteenth-century inscription "Thomas Brunotto" on title-page — inscription "Faventia’ dū’p.a Aug.o 1585/yo- 14" at end — Domenico Maria Saverni (1706-1758), armorial ex libris — Sir John Thorold, 9^th Bt. (1734-1815) (?) — Sir John Hayford Thorold, 10^th Bt. (1773-1831), ex libris — Sir John Henry Thorold, 12^th Bt (1842-1922); his sale, Sotheby's London, 12-19 December 1884, lot 1452 — Bernard Quaritch, London, purchased in previous sale (12s) — Bernard Quaritch, …the library of the late Sir John Hayford Thorold, Bart. … (London 1885), item 376 (15s). acquisition: Possibly R. & E. Emerson. references: UCLA 794; Renouard 204/14; Edit16 33922; USTC 847772; Francesco Barberi, Paolo Manuzio e la Stamperia del Popolo Romano (1556-1570) con documenti inediti (Rome, 1986), pp. 155-156