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ACCURSIUS, BONUS. Compendium elegantiarum Laurentii Vallae. Second edition. 88 leaves, including final blank. Roman type. Rubricated. 4to, 201x145 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, worn, brass catches, lacks clasps; dampstaining in upper margin of opening leaves, contemporary annotations on a1r, scattered marginalia, lacks free endpapers. [Venice: Gabriel di Pietro, circa 1476]
First published the year before, an abridgment of Lorenzo Valla's 1471 Elegantiae, a standard authority for points of Latin style, usage and grammar well into the 16th century. GW 169; BMC V, 203; Goff A27 (locating the LC, Newberry, and University of Illinois copies).
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