Anthologia graeca, Venice, Aldus, 1550, later red morocco gilt, John Spencer copy

Anthologia Graeca. Ανθολογια διαφορων επιγραμματων... Florilegium diversorum epigrammatum in septem libros distinctum, diligenti castigatione emendatum. Cui nonnulla nuper inuenta epigrammata in fine adiecta sunt, una cum indice tam rerum, quam auctorum copiosissimo. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1550 (1551)

Another copy of the third Aldine edition of the Greek Anthology.

8vo (153 x 92 mm). Greek type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z⁸ AA-NN⁸ *⁸ **⁴: 300 leaves (**3 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank).

binding: Eighteenth-century red morocco gilt (160 x 107 mm), spine gilt in compartments with black morocco lettering- piece, gilt edges. (Extremities very slightly rubbed.)

provenance: John Spencer (1718-1775), of Cannon Hall (Barnsley), armorial bookplate. acquisition: Purchased from La Medicea, Florence, 1964. references: UCLA 401; Edit16 1975; Renouard 148/7