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VERGILIUS MARO, Publius. Cum magnete suo Servio Mario grammatico: interprete quam castigatissimo: & pristinae leactioni ... haec in super lector amice ad servia nam expositionem ex m conscripta sunt..., [Milan: by Vincenzo Meda for Nicholas Gorgonzola, June 1533]. 2, title printed in red and black within an historiated woodcut border, woodcut illustrations and initials, printer's device on recto of final leaf (lacking FF2-5 at the end, outer margin of title slightly cropped, A6 with clean tear affecting shoulder note, a few outer margins partly torn away occasionally affecting shoulder notes, paper repair to last leaf, a few leaves lightly browned, occasional light marginal soiling), 17th-century calf, lavishly blind-stamped on covers with a roll-tooled border and 3 roll-tooled panels (rebacked, rubbed, new endpapers), bookplate of David Young.
VERGILIUS MARO, Publius. Cum magnete suo Servio Mario grammatico: interprete quam castigatissimo: & pristinae leactioni ... haec in super lector amice ad servia nam expositionem ex m conscripta sunt..., [Milan: by Vincenzo Meda for Nicholas Gorgonzola, June 1533]. 2, title printed in red and black within an historiated woodcut border, woodcut illustrations and initials, printer's device on recto of final leaf (lacking FF2-5 at the end, outer margin of title slightly cropped, A6 with clean tear affecting shoulder note, a few outer margins partly torn away occasionally affecting shoulder notes, paper repair to last leaf, a few leaves lightly browned, occasional light marginal soiling), 17th-century calf, lavishly blind-stamped on covers with a roll-tooled border and 3 roll-tooled panels (rebacked, rubbed, new endpapers), bookplate of David Young.

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VERGILIUS MARO, Publius. Cum magnete suo Servio Mario grammatico: interprete quam castigatissimo: & pristinae leactioni ... haec in super lector amice ad servia nam expositionem ex m conscripta sunt..., [Milan: by Vincenzo Meda for Nicholas Gorgonzola, June 1533]. 2, title printed in red and black within an historiated woodcut border, woodcut illustrations and initials, printer's device on recto of final leaf (lacking FF2-5 at the end, outer margin of title slightly cropped, A6 with clean tear affecting shoulder note, a few outer margins partly torn away occasionally affecting shoulder notes, paper repair to last leaf, a few leaves lightly browned, occasional light marginal soiling), 17th-century calf, lavishly blind-stamped on covers with a roll-tooled border and 3 roll-tooled panels (rebacked, rubbed, new endpapers), bookplate of David Young.

Rare illustrated edition of Virgil. Graesse VIII, p. 337; not in Brunet, Sander, Adams or BL.

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