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1566, Venice: [Aldo Manuzio the younger]
LIVY. Historiarum ab urbe condita, libri, qui extant, XXXV cum universae historiae epitomis. Ed. and comm. Carlo Sigonio (1524-84, historian, Librarian of St. Mark's). Super-chancery 2° (313 x 205mm). Collation: .#960;a6 (title and wreathed Aldine device, editor's dedication to Bernardino Lauredano dated 1555, epitome of Livy bk. 1); a-e8 f6 (index); A-Z Aa-Zz Aaa-Ddd8 (Livy, Ddd8r register, Ddd8v wreathed device); .A-.N8 .O4 (Sigonius's scholia, .A1r divisional title and wreathed device, -.O4 blank). 52, 400; 107 (without final blank) leaves. Roman types 93mm (text) and 83mm (commentary), italic 93mm (epitomes). 54 and 60 lines and headlines. Woodcut historiated initials. (Some sheets browned.)
BINDING: gold-tooled red morocco by Storr of Grantham for Sir John Hayford Thorold, panelled sides, central stamp of Paulo Manuzio's version of the Aldine device, spine tooled in compartments, roll-border on turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. PROVENANCE: Nicolas Vencey (17th-cent. inscr.); Claudius Jobal, "convictor" (collector?), 17th-cent. inscr.; Franciscus Piant: (inscr. dated 1654); C. de Mageron (monastic inscr. dated 1692); Sir John H. Thorold of Syston Park (1773-1831), binding, bookplates; Rt. Hon. William Henry Smith (1825-91, statesman, developed railway bookstall monopoly and a circulating library), armorial bookplate.
Second edition of Sigonio's Livy, an important work of humanist classical scholarship. Paulus Manutius Aldi Filius appears in the imprint, but throughout the 1560s the Venetian Press was effectively run by the younger Aldus while the father directed the Roman Press with varying success. Adams L-1344; Murphy 559; R 202:19
LIVY. Historiarum ab urbe condita, libri, qui extant, XXXV cum universae historiae epitomis. Ed. and comm. Carlo Sigonio (1524-84, historian, Librarian of St. Mark's). Super-chancery 2° (313 x 205mm). Collation: .#960;a6 (title and wreathed Aldine device, editor's dedication to Bernardino Lauredano dated 1555, epitome of Livy bk. 1); a-e8 f6 (index); A-Z Aa-Zz Aaa-Ddd8 (Livy, Ddd8r register, Ddd8v wreathed device); .A-.N8 .O4 (Sigonius's scholia, .A1r divisional title and wreathed device, -.O4 blank). 52, 400; 107 (without final blank) leaves. Roman types 93mm (text) and 83mm (commentary), italic 93mm (epitomes). 54 and 60 lines and headlines. Woodcut historiated initials. (Some sheets browned.)
BINDING: gold-tooled red morocco by Storr of Grantham for Sir John Hayford Thorold, panelled sides, central stamp of Paulo Manuzio's version of the Aldine device, spine tooled in compartments, roll-border on turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. PROVENANCE: Nicolas Vencey (17th-cent. inscr.); Claudius Jobal, "convictor" (collector?), 17th-cent. inscr.; Franciscus Piant: (inscr. dated 1654); C. de Mageron (monastic inscr. dated 1692); Sir John H. Thorold of Syston Park (1773-1831), binding, bookplates; Rt. Hon. William Henry Smith (1825-91, statesman, developed railway bookstall monopoly and a circulating library), armorial bookplate.
Second edition of Sigonio's Livy, an important work of humanist classical scholarship. Paulus Manutius Aldi Filius appears in the imprint, but throughout the 1560s the Venetian Press was effectively run by the younger Aldus while the father directed the Roman Press with varying success. Adams L-1344; Murphy 559; R 202:19