Maphaeus Vegius and His Thirteenth Book of the Aenid: A Chapter on Virgil in the Renaissance

Inbunden bok. Stanford University Press. 1st uppl. 1930. v + 183 sidor.

Nära nyskick. Skyddsomslag i gott skick. 1st edition. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Purple cloth binding like new, embossed on front with medallion of Vegius wearing laurel wreath. Clear, plastic dust jacket in smudged and warn in spots. Glue tracks from removed bookplate or library-card holder on pastedown, also purple, of front cover. Tracks of a second plate on subsequent facing page. Stamp from Immanuel Church Library, Glenview, Illinois at foot of title page. In pencil next to gutter of 1st page of preface "NL. 3/74 Maynard Estate". Then at top inside corner of same page library shelf mark: 873 Vir Cop. 1". Six woodcuts from Sebastian Brant's series illustrating Vegius from 1502: Wedding Feast of Aeneas and Lavinia, Aeneas Triumphant, The Funeral of Turnus, Embassy to Aeneas, and Marriage of Aeneas. Two facsimiles: title page of English version from 1584 and opening lines of Adam de Ambergau's Virgil, Venice, 1471.