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Property from the Estate of Beatrice Bishop Berle
ALDINE PRESS. ARISTOPHANES. Comaediae Novem [in Greek, edited by Marcus Musurus]. Venice: Aldus Manutius, 15 July 1498.
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ALDINE PRESS. ARISTOPHANES. Comaediae Novem [in Greek, edited by Marcus Musurus]. Venice: Aldus Manutius, 15 July 1498.
Super-chancery folio, 297 x 207 mm. (11 5/8 x 8 1/8 in.), greenish-blue straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt roll-tooled palmette border within double azured gilt fillets, spine in six compartments, the second gilt-lettered, the remainder with gold-tooled diaper design, turn-ins gilt, salmon watered silk endleaves, pink silk ribbon marker, vellum flyleaves, g.e., by Jean-Claude Bozérian, with his gilt stamp at foot of spine, joints and extremities badly worn, lacking upper headband, lacking the first of two blank leaves (fol. 90, 8), title-leaf with tear along gutter, repairs to upper margin catching 2 letters on verso, and slight abrasion affecting lines 15 and 16 on recto, small stain to H7v obscuring a letter, old crease-marks to corners of last few leaves, minor soiling to title and last few leaves.
Collation as in GW. 347 (of 348) leaves, unfoliated. Types 1:146Gk (text), 2:114R (title, dedication, etc.), 7:114Gk (commentary). 41-42 lines of commentary with headline, surrounding varying numbers of lines of text. Woodcut floral and interlaced initials and headpiece ornaments.
EDITIO PRINCEPS, containing Plutus, Nebulae, Ranae, Equites, Acharnes, Vespae, Pax and Contionantes. Two further comedies, Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae, were subsequently discovered and published by Bernardo Giunta in Florence in 1515. HC *1656; Proctor 5566; BMC V, p. 559; GW 2333; IGI 790; Renouard Alde, p. 16.3; Sander 580; Essling 1163; Goff A958.
Provenance: Leo S. Olschki, bookplate -- Cortlandt Field Bishop, morocco bookplate (sale, American Art Association, New York, part 1, 5-8 April 1938, lot 129).
Super-chancery folio, 297 x 207 mm. (11 5/8 x 8 1/8 in.), greenish-blue straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt roll-tooled palmette border within double azured gilt fillets, spine in six compartments, the second gilt-lettered, the remainder with gold-tooled diaper design, turn-ins gilt, salmon watered silk endleaves, pink silk ribbon marker, vellum flyleaves, g.e., by Jean-Claude Bozérian, with his gilt stamp at foot of spine, joints and extremities badly worn, lacking upper headband, lacking the first of two blank leaves (fol. 90, 8), title-leaf with tear along gutter, repairs to upper margin catching 2 letters on verso, and slight abrasion affecting lines 15 and 16 on recto, small stain to H7v obscuring a letter, old crease-marks to corners of last few leaves, minor soiling to title and last few leaves.
Collation as in GW. 347 (of 348) leaves, unfoliated. Types 1:146Gk (text), 2:114R (title, dedication, etc.), 7:114Gk (commentary). 41-42 lines of commentary with headline, surrounding varying numbers of lines of text. Woodcut floral and interlaced initials and headpiece ornaments.
EDITIO PRINCEPS, containing Plutus, Nebulae, Ranae, Equites, Acharnes, Vespae, Pax and Contionantes. Two further comedies, Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae, were subsequently discovered and published by Bernardo Giunta in Florence in 1515. HC *1656; Proctor 5566; BMC V, p. 559; GW 2333; IGI 790; Renouard Alde, p. 16.3; Sander 580; Essling 1163; Goff A958.
Provenance: Leo S. Olschki, bookplate -- Cortlandt Field Bishop, morocco bookplate (sale, American Art Association, New York, part 1, 5-8 April 1938, lot 129).