DONATUS, DE OCTO ORATIONIS PARTIBUS LIBRI OCTO, PERUGIA, 1517, MODERN CRUSHED GREEN MOROCCO

4to (196 x 133mm.), woodcut illustration of a teacher and pupil on title-page, woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device and woodcut arms of Perugia on final leaf, a few manuscript annotations, modern crushed green morocco, gilt edges, cut slightly close at head, inscription washed from title-page

Edit16 17642; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 162; Sander 2437

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The fine woodcut on the title-page depicts the editor, the Croatian Dominican scholar Joannes Policarpus Severitanus, sitting at a desk before a student, with books on a shelf at the far side of the room and in a high alcove behind Policarpus. The woodcut is signed by Eustachio Celebrino with his anvil device.