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CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH BINDING WITH ROYAL ARMS DECIO, FILIPPO. De regulis juris. Title in red and black within woodcut historiated architectural border. [32], 151, [1] leaves, including final blank. bound with: DINO DEL MUGELLO [or DINO ROSSONI]. De regulis juris. Title in red and black within woodcut historiated architectural border. 136, [18] leaves. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 179x121 mm, contemporary English (London?) binding of calf over wooden boards with full-size panel stamps of the arms of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon on the front cover and Tudor arms and rose in 2 compartments on the rear cover, brass catches, lacking clasps, contemporary printed waste endleaves, head- and tailcaps discreetly restored; tiny wormholes mainly through front cover and opening leaves of first work not impairing legibility, light marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, scattered early marginalia and underscoring; cloth folding case. Bookplates of J. T. Williamson and K. J. Hewett. (Lyon: Jean David, alias La Mouche, 2 July) 1528; [Lyon: Jacques & François Giunta], 1530
two scarce collections of roman and canon law maxims, respectively,in a contemporary panel-stamped binding. The authors were Italian jurists: Decio (1454-1535) taught at Paris and Siena, Dino (1253-circa 1298) at Bologna. The first work first appeared in 1520, the second in 1472; both went through many editions, most of which survive in few copies if at all. NUC locates only the Harvard Law and Huntington Library copies of the first; neither edition in OCLC. The panel stamps are found together in the only 4 examples known to Oldham. Baudrier V, 144, and VI, 134 (not having seen a copy); Oldham Blind Panels HE8, HE9; see also Nixon, Broxbourne Library 21.
