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VERGILIUS MARO, Publius. Opera cum decem commentis docte et familiariter exposita, [Lyon: Jean Crespin, 1529]. 2 parts in one volume, 2°, first title printed in red and black within foliated woodcut border with putti, second title with woodcut fleur-de-lys, 207 woodcut illustrations, metalcut crible initials (first title partially detached, corners and upper and lower portion of title torn away, a few margins browned and lightly spotted), 17th-century French calf (rebacked, corners rubbed), a few manuscript annotations. Adams V474.
A fine series of dark impressions from the celebrated series of Gruninger's Strassburg edition of 1502, of which A. W. Pollard wrote: "...crowded with wonderful pictures, in which on the very eve of the Renaissance Virgil is thoroughly medievalized" (Fine Books p.112.).
A fine series of dark impressions from the celebrated series of Gruninger's Strassburg edition of 1502, of which A. W. Pollard wrote: "...crowded with wonderful pictures, in which on the very eve of the Renaissance Virgil is thoroughly medievalized" (Fine Books p.112.).
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