Vergilius Maro (Publius) Opera, collation: *¹⁰, a-e⁸, f-g⁶, h-r⁸, s-t⁶, v⁴, x¹⁰, y-z⁸, &⁸, ?⁸, aa-zz⁸, aaa-uuu⁸, xxx⁶, yyy-zzz⁸, A-D^8, title within woodcut architectural border, a later ink ownership inscription and a few early notes, profuse woodcut illustrations throughout, some with early hand-colouring, early ink notes to margins in various hands, lacking D4-8 (last f.583), title and a few other ff. with edges either laid down to or with paper repairs, 2B5 with tear across text and small hole with loss of letters, peripheral ff. with some soiling or browning, a little minor damp-staining, elsewhere scattered, and a occasional spots, endpapers renewed, contemporary vellum, spine ends bumped with small tear to foot, lower covers corners a little worn, folio (307x211mm.), Venice, Lucantonio Giunta, 1544.

⁂ The richly illustrated Giunta editions were Virgil's most popular Italian editions in the first half of the sixteenth century. The over 100 woodcuts were copied from the blocks produced for Johann Gruninger's Strasbourg edition of 1502.

Literature: Not in Adams; EDIT 16 CNCE 54877.

Provence: Olga Raggio (1926-2009), art historian and curator with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; gifted to the present owner.