Martialis, Epigrammata, Venice, Aldus, 1501, mottled calf

Marcus Valerius Martialis

[Epigrammata]. (Venice: Aldus Manutius, December 1501)

8vo (153 x 89mm.), italic text, with final blank, eighteenth-century mottled calf, flat spine gilt, speckled edges, small tear at head of O2-3 and R2

A CRISP CLEAN COPY of the first Aldine edition of Martial's entertaining poems, one of the first pocket editions of the Classics.

LITERATURE

Aldo Manuzio tipografo 49; Edit16 36018; Renouard 30/7