Vergilius, Opera, Pauli Manutii adnotationes, Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1561, contemporary German pigskin

Vergilius Maro, Publius. Pauli Manutii adnotationes, & Homeri loca magis insignia, quae Virgilius imitatus est, in margine notata, seruato chartarum numero aldinae impressionis. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1561

8vo (150 x 97 mm). Italic type with some Roman, 29 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z⁸ AA-GG⁸ HH⁴: 244 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and recto of last leaf. (Scattered light dampstaining.)

binding: Contemporary German pigskin over stiff pasteboards (160 x 105 mm), panel stamp with traces of gilt overlay composed of rectangle and lozenge containing a circle around interlacing strapwork and garlands, floral ornaments at corners and at points of lozenge, spine with six compartments, blind ornaments in compartments, morocco title label, edges gilt and gauffered. (Rebacked, later repair to head of spine, rubbed, gilding largely oxidized, corners bumped.)

provenance: Eugène Wassermann (1870–1925) — Galerie Georges Giroux & Henri Leclerc with Charles de Samblanx, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de M. Eugène von Wassermann, Brussels, 24 October-5 November 1921, lot 1041. acquisition: Purchased from Deval & Muir, Bishop's Stortford, 1971. references: UCLA 656; Renouard 183/16; Edit16 56490; USTC 862809