Juvenal.

Satirarvm Libri V. Svlpiciae Satira. Noua editio. Cvra Nicolaie Rigaltii.

Paris, for Robert III Estienne 1616.

Narrow 12mo (160 x 85 mm.). [xl], 126, [2 blank]p..

Contemporary gilt-paneled calf with rules, dots and flower vases (slightly stained, joints partly cracked), gilt spine with vases (crown and base defective).

With: Persius.       
          [Satirae].  Paris, for Robert III Estienne 1614. 12mo. 23p. 

           Ad I: First Edition of Rigault’s recension, based on a newly discovered manuscript and enhanced by his long introductory essay on classical satirists addressed to book collector Jacques-Auguste de Thou. The first-century woman poet Sulpicia’s verse is at the end. Rigault’s inscription Ex dono authoris on the title.

            Ad II: This text was not separately printed over the next seventy years. Both are in good condition.
¶Ad I-II: Renouard, Annales…des Estienne 202,1 & 9; Schweiger, Handbuch der…Lateinische Schriftsteller I: 503-4 & II: 711.

           

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