Vergilius, Opera, [Lyon, Baldazare de Gabiano and/or/for Barthelemy Trot? 30, January 1512?], remboîtage of a sixteenth-century Flemish binding, Leuven

Vergilius Maro, Publius. Vergilius. In hoc volumine continentur opera vergiliana inferius scripta. Bucolica. Georgica. Aeneidos libri xii una cum Mapphei Veggii libro xiii eiusdem Vergilii opuscola: uidelicet Culex. Dirae. Aethna. Cyris ad Messalam. Moretum. Hortulus & elegia de obitu Mecoenatis. Epigrammata. Vir bonus. de ludo. De liuore. De venere e uino. De litterae Y Pythagorae. Coppa et rosa. Est & non. Aetates animalium. Aerumne & labores Herculis. De musarum inventis. De cantu syrenum et de die festo. De fortuna. De Orpheo. De seipso. De speculo et fonte: et experientia. De glacie et plaustro et arcu coelesti quam irim uocat. De quattuor temporis anni: et de ortu solis. De signis coelestibus. Quaedam idyllia. Carmen ad Priapum. Vergilii varia epitaphia. [Lyon: Baldazare de Gabiano and/or/for Barthelemy Trot? 30 January 1512?]

An uncommon Lyonese counterfeit, copied from the Aldine edition of 1505 and from "an earlier counterfeit edition with fleur-de-lys (not seen) which was in part a copy of the 1510 Giunta edition. The date '159' in the colophon cannot therefore stand for 1509. The book is unlikely to have been printed as late as 1519" (Shaw).

8vo (165 x 96 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A–Z⁸ AA–QQ⁸: 312 leaves. Title-page with first word and fleur-de-lys ornament printed in red, three-, four-, and six-line initial space with guide letters. (Lightly browned, inscriptions washed from first and last leaves.)

binding: Evidently a remboîtage (171 x 111 mm) composed of covers from a near-contemporary panel-stamped Flemish binding, Louvain, depicting the Three Marys mourning Christ with Jerusalem in background, signed "JEHAN NORVIS," rebacked with an eighteenth-century spine gilt in five compartments laid down, two pairs of modern leather ties, red edges.

provenance: "A European Gentleman," so designated in — Sotheby's, London, 29 November 2016, lot 96 (£6,250). acquisition: Purchased at Sotheby's via Halwas. references: UCLA 1142 (not in collection); Baudrier, VIII, 418–419; Edit16 59421; FB 90319, 90320; Gültlingen, Trot 10; Renouard 310/35; USTC 862736, 155141, 43899; Shaw, "The Lyons Counterfeit of Aldus's Italic Type," in The Italian Book 1465–1800 (1993), 56