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TACITUS, Publius Cornelius (AD56-117). Historiarum et annalium libri qui exstant, lusti Lipsii Studio emendati &illustrati. Edited by Justus Lipsius. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1574.
8o (173 x 105). Collation: A-z8 a-z8 Aa-Bb8 (Bb8 blank). Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials, red-ruled borders. (A few leaves with marginal wormholes, light overall browning.) Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, edges gilt (lightly stained, a few wormholes). Provenance: John Slocum (pencil note); acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1988.
FIRST EDITION. "Relatively unknown during the Middle Ages, Tacitus, whose works were first printed in Venice about 1473 and several times reprinted before the end of the century, exercised great influence on Renaissance historians. Justus Lipsius (1547-1606), the Netherlands scholar, knew the whole of Tacitus by heart, and his great edition, nineteen times reprinted, is one of the monuments of sixteenth-century scholarship" (PMM). Adams calls for a final gathering, *8, which is lacking here, and also in the Adams copy, and in the BSB library copy. Adams T-31; PMM 93.
8o (173 x 105). Collation: A-z8 a-z8 Aa-Bb8 (Bb8 blank). Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials, red-ruled borders. (A few leaves with marginal wormholes, light overall browning.) Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, edges gilt (lightly stained, a few wormholes). Provenance: John Slocum (pencil note); acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1988.
FIRST EDITION. "Relatively unknown during the Middle Ages, Tacitus, whose works were first printed in Venice about 1473 and several times reprinted before the end of the century, exercised great influence on Renaissance historians. Justus Lipsius (1547-1606), the Netherlands scholar, knew the whole of Tacitus by heart, and his great edition, nineteen times reprinted, is one of the monuments of sixteenth-century scholarship" (PMM). Adams calls for a final gathering, *8, which is lacking here, and also in the Adams copy, and in the BSB library copy. Adams T-31; PMM 93.