Details

Donor

• Morgan, Junius Spencer [Browse]

Form/​Genre

Annotations (Provenance)

Notes

• Very rare edition.
• VRG copy contains ms. notes.
• The Lyons counterfeit of the Aldine edition of 1505. cf. Graesse.
• Mambelli assigns this to Lyons, 1511?, noting that it is a counterfeit of 1505 Aldine and 1510 Giunta edns.

Binding note

VRG copy bound in 16th century German pigskin tooled in blind, with intials 'M A P' on front cover.

Source acquisition

VRG copy is gift of J.S. Morgan.

References

B. Quaritch, Catalogue of a most important collection of publications of the Aldine Press, 1494-1595 (1929), p.80, Vergilius, entry 2.

OCLC

43331422