![PLUTARCH. Vitae ... nouissime post Jodocu[m] Badiu[m] ... lo[n]ge diligentius repositae. Venice: Melchiorre Sessa & Pietro dei Ravani, 26 November 1516. 2° (291 x 201mm). Title in red and black with woodcut device, another, smaller, device on last page, 78 woodcut illustrations in the text, the first larger than the rest, numerous white-on-black initials (title a little soiled and with a very small repair affecting 2 numbers on the verso, quire R lightly waterstained in the inner margins). 19th-century Italian vellum, flat spine gilt with leather labels.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/CSK/2005_CSK_05623_0289_000(110430).jpg?w=1)
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PLUTARCH. Vitae ... nouissime post Jodocu[m] Badiu[m] ... lo[n]ge diligentius repositae. Venice: Melchiorre Sessa & Pietro dei Ravani, 26 November 1516. 2° (291 x 201mm). Title in red and black with woodcut device, another, smaller, device on last page, 78 woodcut illustrations in the text, the first larger than the rest, numerous white-on-black initials (title a little soiled and with a very small repair affecting 2 numbers on the verso, quire R lightly waterstained in the inner margins). 19th-century Italian vellum, flat spine gilt with leather labels.
The most heavily illustrated early Italian edition of Plutarch's Lives, the earlier ones with only the illustration of Theseus and the later ones, up to 1538, never containing more than fifty-two woodcuts. These seventy-eight cuts, illustrating mythological scenes and episodes in Greek and Roman history, therefore appear here for the first time. They are described in great detail by Essling. Censimento CNCE 30046; Essling 597; Sander 5785; not in Adams.
The most heavily illustrated early Italian edition of Plutarch's Lives, the earlier ones with only the illustration of Theseus and the later ones, up to 1538, never containing more than fifty-two woodcuts. These seventy-eight cuts, illustrating mythological scenes and episodes in Greek and Roman history, therefore appear here for the first time. They are described in great detail by Essling. Censimento CNCE 30046; Essling 597; Sander 5785; not in Adams.
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