Vergilius, Opera, Pauli Manutii adnotationibus, Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1558, early nineteenth-century English maroon straight-grained morocco

Vergilius Maro, Publius. Pauli Manutii adnotationibus, in libri margine ob studiosorum commodum adscriptis, illustratus. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1558

8vo (144 x 99 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 verso of last leaf. (Discreet repair and short closed tear to inner margin of title-page)

binding: Early nineteenth-century English maroon straight-grained morocco with gilt Aldine device on covers (148 x 104 mm), spine with inlaid black morocco oval labels outlined by gilt fillets, gilt edges. (Extremities lightly rubbed, spine a trifle sunned.)

provenance: Gee & Bridges, Cambridge, booksellers' ticket — Sir John Hayford Thorold, 10^th Bt. (1773-1831) — Sir John Henry Thorold, 12^th Bt. (1842-1922); his sale, Sotheby's London, 12-19 December 1884, lot 2058; purchased by — Henry Sotheran & Co., London (£2 12s) — Robert Borthwick Adam (1863-1940); his sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 15-16 February 1926, lot 8 — Bernard Quaritch, London, slip dated 1972 (loosely inserted) — Giorgio Angiolo Eduardo Uzielli (1915-1984), ex libris; his sale, Sotheby's New York, 24 September 1986, lot 100 (part lot, 17 volumes altogether; "the Syston-Park-R.B. Adam copy") (lot realised $5225). acquisition: Purchased from E.K. Schreiber, New York, 1986. references: UCLA 545; Renouard 174/12; Edit16 56403; USTC 862801