Catullus, Gaius Valerius, Albius Tibullus and Sextus Propertius. Catullus. Tibullus. Propetius. Venice : Aldo Manuzio, January 1502

A second copy, with mispr🌺int PROPETIVS on the ⛎title-page.

8vo (160 x 91 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-E⁸ F⁴ A-D⁸ E⁴ a-i⁸: 152 leaves. Text ruled in red ink, with extensive early French illumination of quality, A2r with a zoomorphic initial on gilt floral ground and floral-strawberry border, all other initi🔜als painted and gilt, as also paragraph marks (top of border cropped).

binding: Seventeenth-century French brown morocco (165 x 98 mm) with armorial supral⛄ibros 𒈔of Louis Bizeau and LB monogram at corners [Olivier 486, fers 3 and 5], the same initials on spine, marbled endleaves, gilt edges.

provenance: Signature of Salomon Certon (ca. 1550-ca. 1610, translator of the Odyssey into French verse) — Louis Bizeau (fl. 1650), his arms on binding (he also owned a copy of the Aldine 1501 Martial, similarly bound) — Wilfred Merton, book label — Phillips, London, 13 November 1997, lot 257, £9,200. acquisition: Purchased at preceding sale via Robin Halwas. references: UCLA 52🃏; Adams C1137; Edit16 10356; Renouard 39/16