BINDING -- JUVENALIS, Decimus Junius (c.60-140) & Aulus PERSIUS FLACCUS (34-62). Satyrae cum doctissimorum vivorum commentariis atq[u]e annotationibus Basle: Froben, 1551. 2° (317 x 203mm). Printer's device on title-page and verso of final leaf, historiated initials throughout. (Occasional mainly light waterstain at upper edge, title-page dust-soiled with two old creases, occasional minor paper faults, repairs and wormholes, 2 marginal holes in final leaf.) Late 17th-century French calf BOUND FOR LOUIS XIV, sides centred with the royal arms [Olivier 2494, fer 7] within a field of large fleur-de-lis and a partly superimposed roll-tool and filleted border, spine in seven panels with single fleur-de-lys at centre of six, the remaining panel directly lettered, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, some abrasions and areas of loss, expertly recased).
BINDING -- JUVENALIS, Decimus Junius (c.60-140) & Aulus PERSIUS FLACCUS (34-62). Satyrae cum doctissimorum vivorum commentariis atq[u]e annotationibus Basle: Froben, 1551. 2° (317 x 203mm). Printer's device on title-page and verso of final leaf, historiated initials throughout. (Occasional mainly light waterstain at upper edge, title-page dust-soiled with two old creases, occasional minor paper faults, repairs and wormholes, 2 marginal holes in final leaf.) Late 17th-century French calf BOUND FOR LOUIS XIV, sides centred with the royal arms [Olivier 2494, fer 7] within a field of large fleur-de-lis and a partly superimposed roll-tool and filleted border, spine in seven panels with single fleur-de-lys at centre of six, the remaining panel directly lettered, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, some abrasions and areas of loss, expertly recased).

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BINDING -- JUVENALIS, Decimus Junius (c.60-140) & Aulus PERSIUS FLACCUS (34-62). Satyrae cum doctissimorum vivorum commentariis atq[u]e annotationibus Basle: Froben, 1551. 2° (317 x 203mm). Printer's device on title-page and verso of final leaf, historiated initials throughout. (Occasional mainly light waterstain at upper edge, title-page dust-soiled with two old creases, occasional minor paper faults, repairs and wormholes, 2 marginal holes in final leaf.) Late 17th-century French calf BOUND FOR LOUIS XIV, sides centred with the royal arms [Olivier 2494, fer 7] within a field of large fleur-de-lis and a partly superimposed roll-tool and filleted border, spine in seven panels with single fleur-de-lys at centre of six, the remaining panel directly lettered, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, some abrasions and areas of loss, expertly recased).

LOUIS XIV'S FOLIO COPY OF JUVENAL with the royal arms in full splendour on each cover. Adams J-780; Essling 576.

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