Titus Lucretius Carius poetae philosophici antiquissimi de rerum natura liber primus incipit foeliciter
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Type of record: Book
Title: Titus Lucretius Carius poetae philosophici antiquissimi de rerum natura liber primus incipit foeliciter
Other titles: De rerum natura
Classmark: BC Incunabula/LUC
Creator(s): Titus Lucretius Carus
Additional creator(s): Ragazonibus, Theodorus de (1490-1497) (Printer); Pezold, Johann Nathanael (1739-1813) (Former owner); Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard (1787-1854) (Former owner); Bond, Edward (1844-1920) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Ragazonibus, Theodorus de; Pezold, Johann Nathanael; Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard; Bond, Edward; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: per theodorum de ragazonibus de asula dictum bresanu[m]; Theodorus de Ragazonibus
Publication city: Impressum Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): Anno domini.MCCCC.LXXXXV.Die.iiii.septembris. [4 September 1495]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [130] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/57435
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007759059705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-p⁸ q¹⁰.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on q10r reads: Impressum Venetiis per theodorum de ragazonibus de asula dictum bresanu[m]. Anno domini.MCCCC.LXXXXV.Die.iiii.septembris.
Printed with 30 long lines to a full page.
Initials spaces, no guide-letters except for the first space.
Indexed in: ISTC no. il00334000.
Indexed in: Goff L334; Klebs 623.3; BMC V 478; Schullian 286.
Features
Notes in black ink manuscript at the top of the verso of the front free endpaper giving details of the edition.
Bindings
Binding of full pale brown calf over pasteboard, probably nineteenth-century. The upper and lower covers are gold-tooled with a border and frame of triple fillets decorated with stylised foliage and fleurons. In each of the four corners of the central panel is a gold-tooled scallop motif. The spine has five raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Lucre 1495. The other panels are decorated with a border of triple fillets containing a circular motif and fleurons at each corner. The board edges are gold-tooled and the leaf edges are marbled blue and white. The upper cover is nearly detached from the spine at the joint and there is a small loss to the head of the spine. Size: 205 x 150mm. Leaf size: 198 x 146mm.
Provenance
Book label of Georgius Kloss, M.D. Francofurti ad Moenum on the back pastedown. Georg Kloss's library was disposed of by Sotheby's in 1835.
Bookplate on the front pastedown: Bibliotheca Pezoldiana.
Bookplate on the front free endpaper: Mihi et Meis. Edward Bond. 1905. On a ribbon above the motto, name and date is the legend: Du bon de mon cœur.
There are cuttings from two sale catalogues on the verso of the front free endpaper.
Written in pencil manuscript on the recto of the back free endpaper: Perfect (A few wormholes). Bernard Quaritch Ltd. F.S. Ferguson 14.iv.1925.
Small black and white armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired in 1925 and almost certainly before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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