Aldine Press -- Iuvenalis, Persius, [colophon: Venice, in aedibus Aldi, 1501], 8vo, first Aldine edition without the anchor device, with 78 unnumbered leaves, initials in blue and red (title holed with loss of two characters and repaired, the missing characters supplied in manuscript, blind stamp of Harvard College on title which has two further stamps on verso, one a release stamp), modern calf. [Renouard 6; Morgan, Persius, 62]

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Aldine Press -- Iuvenalis, Persius, [colophon: Venice, in aedibus Aldi, 1501], 8vo, first Aldine edition without the anchor device, with 78 unnumbered leaves, initials in blue and red (title holed with loss of two characters and repaired, the missing characters supplied in manuscript, blind stamp of Harvard College on title which has two further stamps on verso, one a release stamp), modern calf. [Renouard 6; Morgan, Persius, 62]

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