Details

Printer

• Wendelin, of Speier, -1477? [Browse]

Former owner

• Sunderland, Charles Spencer, Earl of, 1674-1722 [Browse]
• Ives, Brayton, 1840-1914 [Browse]
• Morgan, Junius Spencer [Browse]

Notes

• New York Times, Sept. 30, 1891, p. 9, records John Pierce, NY bookseller, purchased this lot at Ives auction for $3000 and subsequently sold it to Junius Spencer Morgan.
• Gathering: [16]
• No. of lines varies; type 1 (cf. Haebler); printed in black.
• Leaf 1a: Publii Virgilii maronis bucolicorum Liber incipit: Aegloga prima Tityrus & melibeus: Titye tu pauvlae recubans sub tegmine fagi Siluestrem tenui musam meditaris auena. Ends, leaf 161b, l. 11: .M.CCCC.LXX.
• First dated edition; printed on parchment.
• VRG copy has initials and decorations illuminated red, blue, green and gold.

Binding note

VRG copy in later red goatskin with French fillet and outer dentelles in gold; marbled endpapers; in dark blue goatskin pull-off case.

Provenance

• VRG copy is from the Sunderland Library.
• VRG copy has booklabels of Brayton Ives., no. 1028, and Junius Spencer Morgan.

References

• Goff V-150
• BM 15th cent., V, p. 154 (IB.19525b)
• Copinger 6003
• Sunderland, C. S. Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana 13041
• Ives, B. Catalogue of the collection of books and manuscripts belonging to Mr. Brayton Ives no. 1028 (p. 292-293, with illustration of title page)

OCLC

270653067

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