signed Hardcover
1534 · Basel
by Virgil. Virgilius Maro, Publius (70-19 B.C.)
Basel: Apud Ioan. Valderum, 1534. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over beveled wooden boards, (binding rubbed and soiled, one clasp broken.) The binding is signed a dated “C.B. 1540”. The boards are ornately tooled in blind with decorative rolls: sheaves of wheat, ornate urns, and female personifications of the virtues Justice, Prudence, Chastity and Honor (represented by Lucretia). This volume, announced as “Pars prima” on the title, contains the full texts of Virgil’s Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid, as well as the commentary of Servius. In his letter to the reader (on the verso of the title page) the publisher, Johann Walder, (truncated)