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Author
Virgil
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Uniform title
Works.
1469
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Format
Book
Language
Latin
Published/Created
Rome : In domo Petri de Maximo [Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], 28 Feb. 1469.
Description
196 leaves ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Details
Related name
Bussi, Giovanni Andrea, 1417-1475
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Printer
Sweynheim, Konrad, -1477
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Pannartz, Arnold, -approximately 1478
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Former owner
Toovey, James, 1814-1893
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Linlithgow, John Adrian Louis Hope, Marquess of, 1860-1908
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Morgan, Junius Spencer
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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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