Details

Related name

• Bussi, Giovanni Andrea, 1417-1475 [Browse]

Printer

• Sweynheim, Konrad, -1477 [Browse]
• Pannartz, Arnold, -approximately 1478 [Browse]

Former owner

• Toovey, James, 1814-1893 [Browse]
• Linlithgow, John Adrian Louis Hope, Marquess of, 1860-1908 [Browse]
• Morgan, Junius Spencer [Browse]

Notes

• Edited by Johannes Andreae, Bishop of Aleria.
• Gathering: [28]
• 38 lines to a page; early Roman type; printed in black.
• VRG copy has initials illuminated in blue, pink, green and gold.
• VRG copy contains a few ms. notes.
• VRG copy imperfect: the Priapeia, 6 leaves at end, wanting.
• VRG copy has newspaper clipping from the Morning Post, Feb. 29, 1889, tipped in: Lord Hopetoun's library ... The most expensive book ... was a first edition of Virgil, printed at Rome, 1469; only six copies of this edition can be traced, and these are in public libraries. Mr. Toovey purchased this folio for £590."

Binding note

VRG copy in later black goatskin with French fillet and small corner ornaments in gold; spine tooled in gold; red goatskin spine label lettered in gold; red marbled endpapers; in red straight-grain goatskin pull-off-top box.

Provenance

• VRG copy has booklabels of James Toovey, of Burnham Abbey, Bucks., and Junius Spencer Morgan.
• VRG copy has armorial bookplate of the Earl of Hopetoun.

References

• Copinger 5999
• Graesse
• Goff V-149

OCLC

17357706

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