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(PRIAPEIA.) Diversorum veterum poetarum in Priapum lusus. 79, [1] leaves, including final leaf with Aldine device on verso. 8vo, 153x92 mm, 18th-century French calf gilt, spine ends chipped; contents clean. (Venice: Heirs of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, March), 1534
Second Aldine edition of a collection of poems to the tumescent fertility god Priapus, after the first Aldine of 1517. "The subjects are mainly the shameful chastisements awaiting thieves, the phallus of the god, the offerings presented to him. Clever in versification, lively and sometimes witty in style, they are, with rare exceptions, marked by extreme obscenity" (OCD). Renouard, page 110(1); New UCLA 268. From the collections of the jurist Claude Du Puy (1545-94), with his signature on title ('Claudii Puteani'); the Bibliothèque du Roi, with its stamp and duplicate stamp; the classical scholar Henry Drury (1778-1841), with his signed collation note dated 1817; William Horatio Crawford (1812-88), with his armorial bookplate; and the historian Frederick York Powell (1850-1904), with his signature dated 1900.
