ID 519317
Lot 28 | Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 BCE)
Estimate value
£ 3 000 – 5 000
Bucolica, Georgica. Aeneis cum Servii commentariis accuratissime emendatis. Venice: Bernardino Stagnino, 1507.
Editio princeps of Marcus Valerius Probus’s commentary on Virgil’s Eclogues and Georgics, attractively illustrated with 17 woodcuts in the text. This edition also includes commentaries by the ancient grammarians Maurus Servius Honoratus and Aelius Donatus, and the Renaissance humanists Christophoro Landini and Antonio Mancinelli. Adams V-459.
Quarto (203 x 130mm). Woodcut vignette on title depicting the author offering the manuscript of the Aeneid to the emperor Augustus, various other woodcuts throughout with some touches of early colouring, printer’s woodcut device on colophon (title skilfully restored, 2A1 remargined and apparently supplied from another copy, 2I1 with large chip to lower corner neatly repaired with loss of some letters). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, the author’s name in early manuscript on fore-edge (lacking clasps, a few repairs at joints, somewhat rubbed and marked).
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