Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Florence, Filippo I Giunta, 1517, contemporary Italian brown morocco

Valerius Flaccus Setinus Balbus, Gaius. Valerius Flaccus. Florence, Filippo I Giunta, February 1517

Second Giunta edition.

8vo (150 x 94 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a⁴ b-n⁸: 100 leaves. Woodcut Giunta device on final verso. (Blue edge stain visible on some pages, including title, small marginal repair to title, occasional light spotting and soiling.)

binding: Contemporary Italian brown morocco over thin wooden boards (154 x 100 mm), tooled in blind, empty frame around sides, inner border between broad lines of repeated knotwork, in central panel a vertical arrangement of three lozenge-shaped arrangements of four knotwork tools, traces of two pairs of fabric ties, spine with four compartments with saltires formed by single fillet, edges stained blue, title on tail edge "VariFlacus." (Worn, spine and corners restored, hinges reinforced, light worming and a few paper repairs to pastedowns and endleaves.)

provenance: Unidentified owner, inscription "Fran.cis Caliagnini Mutis 1619" on title-page — unidentified owner, inscription "si tibi cura mei, sit mihi cura tui (If you yet have any love for me, be sure to show it in the care you take of yourself, Ovid, Heroides XIII 165)" on title-page (17^th century?) — Paulus Folianis, inscription "Pauli Folianis et amicor[um]" to rear endpaper — unidentified owner(s), shelfmarks — Edmé-Pierre Hermitte (1904–1983), ex libris. acquisition: Purchased from Libraio Antiquario Meda Riquier, Pavia, 2010. references: Renouard XLI/101; Edit16 28743; USTC 861749; Decia & Delfiol p. 98 no. 96