Xenophon, opera Xenophontis, [Lyon, Jacques Myt? for] Barthélemy Trot, 1511, contemporary limp vellum

Xenophon. In hoc volumine continentur infrascripta opera Xenophontis. [Lyon: Jacques Myt? for] Barthélemy Trot, 2 September 1511

"Probably copied from the earlier counterfeit edition" (see lots 1560-1562) (Shaw).

8vo (158 x 93 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Y⁸ AA-EE⁸ FF⁴: 220 leaves. Title-page printed in black and red with woodcut device. (Title a bit worn and cropped at lower edge, text intermittently browned, minute wormholes in lower margin at end.)

binding: Contemporary limp vellum with yapp edges (160 x 97 mm), three rawhide bands piercing spine at hinge, traces of two pairs of ties, "XEN" in ink on tail-edge, fifteenth-century manuscript fragments used as binding support. (Lightly stained, cover partially detached, spine darkened and defective.)

provenance: Unidentified owner, inscription (cropped by binder) "Hic liber est Conventus B.M.V. Derthonus F.F. Eremit. Discalceatorum Ord Sti. Augustini Congregnis Italiae…" (seventeenth-century) — unidentified owner, deleted inkstamp "Biblioteca …Torino" (twentieth-century). acquisition: Purchased from Libreria antiquaria Pregliasco, Turin, 1973. references: UCLA 1141; Renouard 311/37; FB 91271; USTC 155119; Baudrier, VIII, 421-422; Gültlingen, II, p. 106: 11; Shaw 49