VIRGILIUS MARO, Publius. Opera [and] Castigationes & varietates Virgilianae lectionis, per Ioannem Pierim Valerianum, Paris: Robert Estienne, 1532-29, 2 works in one volume, 2°, first work with printer's device to title and large criblé initials, large woodcut to title of the second work (inner margin of a few leaves wormed, light marginal dampstaining to the commentary), contemporary calf (neat repairs to extremities and joints). [Adams V476; Schreiber 45 and 40]

細節

VIRGILIUS MARO, Publius. Opera [and] Castigationes & varietates Virgilianae lectionis, per Ioannem Pierim Valerianum, Paris: Robert Estienne, 1532-29, 2 works in one volume, 2°, first work with printer's device to title and large criblé initials, large woodcut to title of the second work (inner margin of a few leaves wormed, light marginal dampstaining to the commentary), contemporary calf (neat repairs to extremities and joints). [Adams V476; Schreiber 45 and 40]

來源

A. de Grateloupe, old ownership inscription to front pastedown; some old marginal annotations.

拍品專文

"It is in this important edition of Virgil that Robert Estienne first made full use of the three sizes of his new roman type, possibly cut by Claude Garamond ... It became at once the most distinctive and influential French roman of the century, and set a new standard of typographical excellence" (Schreiber). It is commonly found, as here, with the textual commentary by Valeriano Bolzani.