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ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS. In Novum Testamentum ab eodem denuo recognitum, Annotationes, ingenti nuper accessione per autorem locupletatae. Greek and Latin text. Title, first page of preface, and first page of text within woodcut historiated and ornamental borders by Ambrosius Holbein and Hans Holbein the Younger. [8], 579, [1] pages. Folio, 322x212 mm, contemporary Cambridge binding of blind-tooled calf over wooden boards by Nicholas Spierinck, center panel of vertical griffin/wyvern/lion and diaper rolls enclosed by frame of intersecting impressions of the griffin/wyvern/lion roll, with repeated impressions of fleuron tool around the periphery, spine lettered in blind in the 19th-century, brass catches, lacking clasps, spine ends and cover corners restored, endpapers renewed, vellum leaves from a 14th-century Latin manuscript missal bound in as flyleaves; light marginal dampstaining, tiny wormholes not impairing legibility, scattered early marginalia, dark stain in outer margin of index leaves, Greek and Latin quotations and mottoes in later 16th-century hand on rear flyleaf. Signature of Robert Pemberton dated 1642; bookplate of K. J. Hewett. Basel: (Johann Froben, March) 1519
Issued to accompany the 1518 second edition of Erasmus's Greek New Testament, considerably enlarged from the 1516 original edition. The Dutch-born Cambridge binder Spierinck was active in the first 4 decades of the 16th century. Folio-size examples of his work are uncommon outside institutional collections. Darlow & Moule 4597; PMM 46; Oldham, English Blind-Stamped Bindings AN.f(2), DI.a(2), 115; see also lot 75.
