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SOLINUS, Julius (fl. 3rd century). De mirabilibus mundi. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1473.
Royal half-sheet 4° (280 x 196 mm). Collation: [1-78 812] (1/1 blank, 1/2r table, 1/4 blank, 1/5r text, 8/11v colophon, 8/12 blank). 65 leaves (of 68, without the three blank leaves). 33 lines. Type: 1:114R. Opening 7-line initial space, 2-line initial spaces with guide letters. (Most lower blank margins with neatly filled worm-hole or track, mainly affecting first few leaves, small repair to upper blank fore-corner of fol. 1/6, lightly washed.) 19th-century French dark blue straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt-ruled flower and leaf border, gilt-flecked wavy-edged cornerpiece ornaments framing two large interlocking gilt diamonds with small central gilt-stippled diamond lozenge tooled to a floral design, the gilt design highlighted by floral tooling in blind, smooth spine in six compartments, two lettered in gilt, the remainder densely gilt tooled and stippled, gilt edges, turn-ins gilt, crimson moiré silk liners, the pastedown liners with gilt tooled border, vellum inner flyleaves, by FRANCOIS BOZERIAN, with his gilt stamp "Rel. P. Bozerian Jeune" at tail of spine (joints and extremities rubbed).
Provenance: ANTOINE-AUGUSTIN RENOUARD (Catalogue de la bibliothèque d'un amateur, Paris 1819, IV, p. 9); Edward Craven Hawtrey, bought from Thorpe in 1830, inscription on flyleaf; erased inscription on flyleaf, dated 1834.
FIRST EDITION of Solinus's compilation of wonders of the natural world. Arranged geographically, the work, also known as the Collectanea rerum memorabilium, was borrowed largely but without acknowledgement from Pliny's Natural History and the geography of Pomponius Mela. Little is known of Solinus, whose dates are postulated on the basis of the dedication to one Adventus (whose name is however not stated in this edition), identified with Oclatinius Adventus, consul in A.D. 218. The work was cited by early medieval authorities such as Isidore and Bede, and its popularity throughout the Middle Ages is attested by the survival of over 150 manuscripts from the ninth century on.
After an apprenticeship of three or four years in the shop of his elder brother Jean-Claude, François Bozérian set up his own atelier in 1805 in the rue de Tournon. His activity outlasted his brother's by eight years, his last bindings dating from 1818. Many of the later bindings depart from the pure neo-classical style practiced so successfully by both brothers, and show the richer ornamentation associated with the romantic period of the French Restoration. The present binding is from this later period; although without Renouard's usual stamped gilt ex-libris on the upper cover, it was almost certainly commissioned by Renouard himself, as revealed by the vellum flyleaves that the collector regularly had bound into his better books (cf., for example, Schaefer/Arnim Einbandkunst 167, for another Bozérian jeune binding from Renouard's library, with vellum flyleaves and without the gilt stamp).
Edward Craven Hawtrey (1789-1862), headmaster and provost of Eton College, was renowned for his knowledge of languages, his talents as a teacher, and his positive influence on educational standards at Eton, where he helped found the school library. "As a book-collector he showed consummate taste. He is said to have spent £40,000 on his library, which included alike Aldines and rare editions of the classics ... Many books were very expensively bound, and the library included specimens of celebrated bookbinders ..." (DNB). Part of his library was sold in 1853, and the remainder was dispersed at his death in 1862.
HC *14877; BMC V, 173 (IB. 19670); CIBN S-303; IGI 9084; Klebs 922.1; Oates 1634; Polain (B) 3561; Goff S-615.
Royal half-sheet 4° (280 x 196 mm). Collation: [1-78 812] (1/1 blank, 1/2r table, 1/4 blank, 1/5r text, 8/11v colophon, 8/12 blank). 65 leaves (of 68, without the three blank leaves). 33 lines. Type: 1:114R. Opening 7-line initial space, 2-line initial spaces with guide letters. (Most lower blank margins with neatly filled worm-hole or track, mainly affecting first few leaves, small repair to upper blank fore-corner of fol. 1/6, lightly washed.) 19th-century French dark blue straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt-ruled flower and leaf border, gilt-flecked wavy-edged cornerpiece ornaments framing two large interlocking gilt diamonds with small central gilt-stippled diamond lozenge tooled to a floral design, the gilt design highlighted by floral tooling in blind, smooth spine in six compartments, two lettered in gilt, the remainder densely gilt tooled and stippled, gilt edges, turn-ins gilt, crimson moiré silk liners, the pastedown liners with gilt tooled border, vellum inner flyleaves, by FRANCOIS BOZERIAN, with his gilt stamp "Rel. P. Bozerian Jeune" at tail of spine (joints and extremities rubbed).
Provenance: ANTOINE-AUGUSTIN RENOUARD (Catalogue de la bibliothèque d'un amateur, Paris 1819, IV, p. 9); Edward Craven Hawtrey, bought from Thorpe in 1830, inscription on flyleaf; erased inscription on flyleaf, dated 1834.
FIRST EDITION of Solinus's compilation of wonders of the natural world. Arranged geographically, the work, also known as the Collectanea rerum memorabilium, was borrowed largely but without acknowledgement from Pliny's Natural History and the geography of Pomponius Mela. Little is known of Solinus, whose dates are postulated on the basis of the dedication to one Adventus (whose name is however not stated in this edition), identified with Oclatinius Adventus, consul in A.D. 218. The work was cited by early medieval authorities such as Isidore and Bede, and its popularity throughout the Middle Ages is attested by the survival of over 150 manuscripts from the ninth century on.
After an apprenticeship of three or four years in the shop of his elder brother Jean-Claude, François Bozérian set up his own atelier in 1805 in the rue de Tournon. His activity outlasted his brother's by eight years, his last bindings dating from 1818. Many of the later bindings depart from the pure neo-classical style practiced so successfully by both brothers, and show the richer ornamentation associated with the romantic period of the French Restoration. The present binding is from this later period; although without Renouard's usual stamped gilt ex-libris on the upper cover, it was almost certainly commissioned by Renouard himself, as revealed by the vellum flyleaves that the collector regularly had bound into his better books (cf., for example, Schaefer/Arnim Einbandkunst 167, for another Bozérian jeune binding from Renouard's library, with vellum flyleaves and without the gilt stamp).
Edward Craven Hawtrey (1789-1862), headmaster and provost of Eton College, was renowned for his knowledge of languages, his talents as a teacher, and his positive influence on educational standards at Eton, where he helped found the school library. "As a book-collector he showed consummate taste. He is said to have spent £40,000 on his library, which included alike Aldines and rare editions of the classics ... Many books were very expensively bound, and the library included specimens of celebrated bookbinders ..." (DNB). Part of his library was sold in 1853, and the remainder was dispersed at his death in 1862.
HC *14877; BMC V, 173 (IB. 19670); CIBN S-303; IGI 9084; Klebs 922.1; Oates 1634; Polain (B) 3561; Goff S-615.