OVIDIUS NASO. Metamorphoseon libri quindecim, [colophon: Venice], Aldus, [1502], 8vo, first Aldus edition, with the Aldine anchor on title and last leaf, with the blank h8 (title and a2-3 browned, b5-d4 with repaired wormhole at lower margins, some waterstains, largely restricted to lower margins), RENAISSANCE BINDING of contemporary Roman brown morocco, richly gilt, leaf-tools in the outer border, arabesque borders, title in the centre of the upper cover OVI. METAMO., covers decorated in two rectangles each containing four tripartite tools and a central round rosette, edges gilt and gauffered (lacking ties), bookplates of J. R.Abbey, Bubbani and Olschki [Renouard 12; Adams O469; Schweiger II, 626]

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OVIDIUS NASO. Metamorphoseon libri quindecim, [colophon: Venice], Aldus, [1502], 8vo, first Aldus edition, with the Aldine anchor on title and last leaf, with the blank h8 (title and a2-3 browned, b5-d4 with repaired wormhole at lower margins, some waterstains, largely restricted to lower margins), RENAISSANCE BINDING of contemporary Roman brown morocco, richly gilt, leaf-tools in the outer border, arabesque borders, title in the centre of the upper cover OVI. METAMO., covers decorated in two rectangles each containing four tripartite tools and a central round rosette, edges gilt and gauffered (lacking ties), bookplates of J. R.Abbey, Bubbani and Olschki [Renouard 12; Adams O469; Schweiger II, 626]

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The first vol. of the 3 vol. Opera published by Aldus 1501-02. The tripartite tool is used also on an Arnaldo de Villanova, 1509, in the Henry Davis collection at the British Library (De Marinis, La Legatura Artistica, I, pl. 106, no. 610) and on an Italian Bible formerly in the Landau collection (ibid., pl. 107, no. 611).

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