Catullus, Gaius Valerius. Catullus. Et in eum commentarius M. Antonii Mureti. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1554

First edition of Marc-Antoine Muret's commentary on Catullus; this is the first o🐠ctavo Aldine edition of Catullus to contain a commentary, and also to have the text of Catullus unaccompanied by Tibullus and Propertius.

8vo (164 x 98 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: *⁴ A-Q⁸ R¹⁰: 142 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device o🥃n title-page and final verso (otherwise blank), ruled in red.

binding: Contemporary smooth calf with single gilt fillet bo﷽rder and small azured tool in cente🐠r (167 x 104 mm), gilt edges. (Binding worn at edges and rebacked, slight staining.)

provenance: Carolus Cheverrius(?), early inscription on title-page — Foures(?), signature at foot of title-page — D.P.D.C.H., initials on inside front cover — Thomas Mostyn (1704-1758), inscription on flyleaf dated 21 April 1724, sale of the Mostyn Hall Library, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 9-10 December 1974, lot 50, £50, to West. acquisition: Purchased from B.H. Blackwell, Oxford, 1982. references: UCLA 459; Edit16 10364; Renouard 162/19