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Lot 88: ALDUS MANUTIUS.

Est: £1,000 GBP - £1,500 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomDecember 16, 2004

Item Overview

Description

Phrases linguae latinae... nunc primum in ordinem Abecedarium adductae, & in Anglicum sermonem conversae. London: Thomas Vautrollier, 1585

Condition Note: 8vo (143 x 94mm.), text in Latin and English, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut tailpiece on final verso, contemporary calf with blind-stamped centrepieces, front endpapers detached, spine chipped at head and foot, lacking two pairs of ties

Artist or Maker

Literature

STC 17279.5 (listing this copy and one other in the US)

Provenance

William Briane, three contemporary ownership inscriptions on endpapers

Notes

Vautrollier first printed this textbook in 1573.

Auction Details

English Literature, History & Children's Books and Illustrations

by
Sotheby's
December 16, 2004, 12:00 AM EST

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK