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OTTOMAN BINDING POMPONIUS LAETUS (JULIUS) Opera varia, Mainz, Johannes Schoeffer, 1521
25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
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OTTOMAN BINDING
POMPONIUS LAETUS (JULIUS) Opera varia, title within decorative woodcut border, several large historiated woodcut initials, without final blank, nineteenth century calf preserving earlier Ottoman morocco panels on sides (described in Burlington Catalogue as "Turkish binding of the 16th century... with sunk panels; elegant arabesque design on a stippled gold ground"), [Adams P1833], 8vo (151 x 95mm.), Mainz, Johannes Schoeffer, 1521
Footnotes
Exhibited as item 58 in the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Bookbindings, 1891, illustrated in the catalogue on plate 14.
Provenance: "Sum fran: Sirelli Tironii" in an early hand; William Milton (1838), ownership inscriptions on title; W.H. Corfield, bookplate, and pasted-in note from Burlington catalogue naming him as lender.
