anno Domini Mcccclxxxxvi die xii Iulii [12 July 1496]
Call Number:
2017 +317
Image Count:
808
Alternative Title:
Correspondence
Description:
BEIN 2017 +317: Capital spaces, some with printed or manuscript guide-letters. Capitals supplied in red or blue. Capital strokes in red, blue, green or yellow. Rubricated throughout in red or blue. Contemporary manuscript notes., BEIN 2017 +317: Provenance: 1. Antonio Pillone, 2. Odorico Pillone, 3. Venetian dealer Paolo Maresio Bazolle purchased from the Pillone family in 1874 and sold to 4. Sir Thomas Brooke (armorial bookplate) sold by his heirs in 1957 to 5. Pierre Berès (Bookplate: Libro no [in manuscript: 29] de la Bibliothèque Pillone, Pierre Berès). Acquired by the Beinecke Library from Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., BEIN 2017 +317: Binding: Contemporay brown Italian goatskin over wooden boards by Belluno bindery B, sides panelled and tooled to two different designs on upper and lower cover, with Hobson stamps 8, 11, 21, 25, and 26. Spine with four raised double-bands tooled with crosses, compartments decorated with diagonal fillets, flower-head and punch tools, 9 (of 10) bosses, 1 (of 4 clasps), 4 catches. Fore-edge painting by Cesare Vecellio of St. Jerome; title lettered vertically, top and bottom edges painted., BEIN Zi +5141: And other tracts. For fuller description see collation slip in volume., Imprint from second colophon on leaf 2D6., Signatures: pi⁶ a-u⁸ x⁴ A-2C⁸ 2D⁶ 2E⁸ 2F⁶., and Includes Regula monachorum ex epistolis S. Hieronymi excerpta (leaves 377-390, 2E1-2F6).
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., author
Published / Created:
Mcccclxxxxiii die xviii Iulii [18 July 1493]
Call Number:
2017 +316
Image Count:
320
Alternative Title:
Works. 1493 and Tragoediae
Description:
BEIN 2017 +316: Capitals supplied in red or blue. Manuscript note on free back endpaper: Collated complete pp. B. Quaritch Ltd. [undeciphered initials]., BEIN 2017 +316: Provenance: 1. Antonio Pillone, 2. Odorico Pillone, 3. Venetian dealer Paolo Maresio Bazolle purchased from the Pillone family in 1874 and sold to 4. Sir Thomas Brooke (armorial bookplate) sold by his heirs in 1957 to 5. Pierre Berès (Bookplate: Libro no [in manuscript: 55] de la Bibliothèque Pillone, Pierre Berès), 6. Helmut Friedlaender (bookplate "HNF"; sale Christie's NY, 23 April 2001, lot 117). Acquired by the Beinecke Library from Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., BEIN 2017 +316: Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled brown goatskin over thin wooden boards, bound for Antonio Pillone by Hobson's Belluno Binder A. Sides panelled within triple fillets, outer and central compartments adorned with widely spaced small 4- and 5-petalled rosette tools, two inner borders composed respectively of a repeated blossom and leaf tool and leafy tool (see Hobson tools 1, 2, 7 and 11). Spine with two double raised bands tooled with intersecting triple fillets, 4 (of 10) brass bosses, 1 (of 2) clasps and 2 catches. Fore-edge painting by Cesare Vecellio of Seneca with abbreviated name and title ("SEN T") at bottom., BEIN Zi +4994: For fuller description see collation leaf in volume. Manuscript marginal notes. Worm-eaten, with some damage to text. Bound in old limp vellum, with flap, oriental style, and leather strap; part of the strap, presumably with buckle, missing. Manuscript notes: fol. 2a: "Es dela Libr1. de S. Miguel de los Reyes."; fol. 1a: "This book was given to me by Dr. Pedro Perez the antiquarian of Valencia May 8th 1844. Q. Ayshford Sanford." Dr. Perez's visiting card pasted on fol. 1a. 31 cm., Title from caption of text on leaf I (a1); imprint from colophon., Commentaries by Gellio Bernardino Marmitta and Daniel Caietanus., Signatures: A⁴ a-b⁸ c-z⁶ &⁴ (A1 blank)., and Woodcut initials, also capital-spaces with guide-letters.
BEIN 2017 +313: Capital spaces with manuscript guide-letters. Capitals supplied in red or blue. Some Latin manuscript marginal notes. Contempory note on author and his times on front flyleaf., BEIN 2017 +313: Provenance: 1. Antonio Pillone, 2. Odorico Pillone, 3. Venetian dealer Paolo Maresio Bazolle purchased from the Pillone family in 1874 and sold to 4. Sir Thomas Brooke (armorial bookplate) sold by his heirs in 1957 to 5. Pierre Berès (Bookplate: Libro no [in manuscript: 58] de la Bibliothèque Pillone, Pierre Berès). Acquired by the Beinecke Library from Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., BEIN 2017 +313: Binding: Contemporary Italian goatskin over wooden boards, blind-tooled by Belluno binder A (see Hobson tools 3, 7 and 10), 7 (of 10) bosses, 2 clasps and catches, vellum endleaves. Title lettered in ink on upper cover "iulii [cor.tacitus] agricolae vita." Fore-edge painting by Cesare Vecellio of Tacitus with his name abbreviated at bottom: COR T. See Hobson, A. "Pillone library." in Book collector, v. 7 (1958), 28-37., BEIN Zi +5838 Copy 1: Book-plate of Augustus Frederick, duke of Sussex. A few manuscript notes in margins. Ff. 160 (c.sig.y10, blank), 175-176 (c.sigs.&⁷⁻⁸, &8 blank) and 188 (c.sig.B6, blank) wanting; the text of f. 175a has been supplied in manuscript on a sheet of paper pasted at the bottom of f. 174b. Slightly water-stained., BEIN Zi +5838 Copy 2: Book-plate with the letters B and O in center. From the library of Dean Clarence W. Mendell. 27 cm. Ff. 1, 160 (c.sig.y10, blank), 176 (c.sig.&8, blank) and 188 (c.sig.B6, blank) wanting. Water-stained, worm-holes in the beginning; f. 2 mended. Old polished calf binding, stamped in gold., Ff. 160 (c.sig.y10), 175 b (c.sig.&7), 176 (c.sig.&8), 187b (c.sig.B5) and 188 (c.sig.B6) blank., The second, third, and fourth sheets of quire a are signed a¹⁻³, the rest of the quire being unsigned., Capital spaces blank., and Hain gives no imprint or date; Proctor leaved the book undated; Copinger and Voullième (in the Bonn catalogue) ascribe the printing to Christophorus Valdarfer, between 1475 and 1480, but in the Berlin Catalogue Voullième names Zarotus as printer and omits the date; Castan and Brunet date the book between 1475 and 1480, but name no printer; Collijn dates the book at about 1490; The Brit. museum cat. dates the book about 1487.
Onuphrio Muralto = Horace Walpole., The first state of the title-page, 1790, is found in thin paper copies, with uncorrected text, possibly for local sale., At least 2 copies on vellum have title-page in state 2, and text of the cancels., Half-title: Edwards's edition of the Castle of Otranto., BEIN: Vellum binding by Edwards of Halifax., and 25.5 cm. Frontispiece A and B. First leaf wanting. Extra-illustrated, including: folding map, drawings by F. Miller and G.P. Harding; 6 plates published by Harding in 1793; frontispiece of Sivrac's translation, 1795; Miel's plates from Berlin edition, 1794; Kirgate's notes; 2 trade cards.
Publisher:
Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, bookseller of London
