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MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius (fl. late 4th - early 5th centuries). In Somnium Scipionis libri II. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII. Cologne: Joannes Soter, August 1527.
Small 8° (150 x 98mm). Printed in italic type. Printer's device on title, woodcut initials, several diagrams in text, and on p.110 a woodcut map of the world. Contemporary Flemish or English panel-stamped calf over wooden boards, the panel representing in the upper compartment St. Katherine (beneath her, the legend S. katerine) and in the lower ?St. Roch, flanked on sides with the legend in capitals VIRGO SANCTA KATHE/RINA GRECIE GEMA, 17th-century olive morocco spine label, remains of two clasps catching at rear (loss of some leather at head of spine and beside clasp studs on front cover, sides slightly worn). Provenance: contemporary inscriptions of ?William Hunter, George Greswold and George Bale, and occasional annotations; F. G. Sandrapus (later inscription).
RARE AND ATTRACTIVE EARLY 16TH-CENTURY BLIND-STAMPED PANEL OF WHICH ONLY TWO OTHER IMPRESSIONS HAVE BEEN RECORDED: one in the George Dunn collection (sale catalogue November 1917, lot 3077) on a Dinus, 1525, the other in the E. P. Goldschmidt collection (Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings, 1928, vol 2, no. 129, empty covers; illustrated). Goldschmidt, dating it ca. 1525, thought it either English or Flemish, although more probably the former; the inscriptions in this volume suggest at least that it came to England at an early stage. The identification of St. Roch (by Goldschmidt) in the lower compartment of the panel is tentative, as the iconography is unusual (showing a leper's rattle rather than a pilgrim's staff and scrip).
Small 8° (150 x 98mm). Printed in italic type. Printer's device on title, woodcut initials, several diagrams in text, and on p.110 a woodcut map of the world. Contemporary Flemish or English panel-stamped calf over wooden boards, the panel representing in the upper compartment St. Katherine (beneath her, the legend S. katerine) and in the lower ?St. Roch, flanked on sides with the legend in capitals VIRGO SANCTA KATHE/RINA GRECIE GEMA, 17th-century olive morocco spine label, remains of two clasps catching at rear (loss of some leather at head of spine and beside clasp studs on front cover, sides slightly worn). Provenance: contemporary inscriptions of ?William Hunter, George Greswold and George Bale, and occasional annotations; F. G. Sandrapus (later inscription).
RARE AND ATTRACTIVE EARLY 16TH-CENTURY BLIND-STAMPED PANEL OF WHICH ONLY TWO OTHER IMPRESSIONS HAVE BEEN RECORDED: one in the George Dunn collection (sale catalogue November 1917, lot 3077) on a Dinus, 1525, the other in the E. P. Goldschmidt collection (Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings, 1928, vol 2, no. 129, empty covers; illustrated). Goldschmidt, dating it ca. 1525, thought it either English or Flemish, although more probably the former; the inscriptions in this volume suggest at least that it came to England at an early stage. The identification of St. Roch (by Goldschmidt) in the lower compartment of the panel is tentative, as the iconography is unusual (showing a leper's rattle rather than a pilgrim's staff and scrip).