Results for: Diodorus Siculus. fl. 21 B.C.


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16mo. 1127p. A woodcut Gryphe title device (Baudrier 2). Contemporary Lyonese tan calf (minor restoration), triple blind rules around a single gilt rule, GILT DEVICE OF SÉBASTIEN GRYPHE IN THE CENTER (see Baudrier 1, 1bis & 10, tool measures 32 x 20 mm.), blind ruled spine with an open gilt quatrefoil in each compartment, all edges gilt.“These bindings are indeed ‘trade bindings’…specimens of a bookseller’s stock kept ready bound on his premises for the inspection of his books by the customers” (Goldschmidt). Colin concludes “les reliures ornées de telles marques sont extrêmement rares”. In good condition (a few lower outer corners slightly damp wrinkled), 16th century signature of Vidus Menutius.J. Baer, Kat. 770 (1930) 105 & Taf. XX (this copy); Colin, “Les marques de libraires et d’éditeurs dorées sur des reliures” in Bookbindings…Essays in Honour of A. Hobson (1994) 77-115, 97,B,1; Goldschmidt, Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings I: 40-1; see Gruel, Manuel…de reliures II: 89; Hoffmann I: 560; Baudrier, Bib. lyonnaise VIII: 259 = Gültlingen, Lyon V: 196,1229.
Bibliothecae Historiae Libri XVII.
Diodorus Siculus. fl. 21 B.C.
Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe 1552.
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