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ANDRELINUS, PUBLIUS FAUSTUS. Livia. Gourmont criblé device printed in red on title and in black on last page. [64] leaves. Bâtarde type. Ruled in red throughout. 4to, 187x130 mm, 18th-century speckled sheep, rebacked retaining most of original backstrip; marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, scattered contemporary marginalia and underscoring, title soiled, with partly washed handwritten table of contents on verso; edges sprinkled red. [Paris: Antoine Denidel] for Robert de Gourmont, circa 1498-1500
Scarce fourth and last incunabular edition of a collection of love poems named for the author's mistress, originally published in 1490. Copinger 456; GW 1878; BMC VIII, 206; Goff A701; ISTC ia00701000 locates only the Yale and Huntington copies in the U.S., and 4 in Europe (of which the Leipzig copy is lost). From the library of Charles Spencer (1674-1722), third Earl of Sunderland, with shelfmark (Blenheim Palace sale at Puttick & Simpson, 2 December 1881, lot 303, to Quaritch, with their bookplate).
