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CLAUDIANUS, CLAUDIUS. Opera. 176 leaves. 8vo, 163x101 mm, 19th-/early 20th(?)-century olive morocco in skillfully imitating a contemporary Venetian binding, blind-tooled to panel design with small fleurons at corners, author's name lettered across front cover, and 2 large fleurons vertically arranged in center of rear cover, recased with top spine compartment restored, endpapers renewed; blank lower outer corner of title restored, scattered early underscoring and marginalia, minor dampstain in blank upper inner corner of last several leaves. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, March 1523)
only aldine edition of the writings of Claudian (circa 370-404), "the last notable representative of the classical tradition in Latin poetry" (OCD). Renouard, page 96(1); New UCLA 665.
