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TACITUS, PUBLIUS CORNELIUS. [Opera.] [12], 260 leaves. 4to, 218x131 mm, 18th-century russia gilt by Roger Payne with Wodhull arms on front cover, rebacked retaining most of original backstrip; light foxing and marginal dampstaining on opening leaves, erased inscription and repaired hole in blank lower margin of title. (Venice: Heirs of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, November), 1534
only aldine edition. Renouard, page 112(8); New UCLA 275. From the library of the politician and bibliophile Robert Hoblyn (1710-56); purchased at the latter's 1778 sale at Baker and Leigh by the poet, translator, and bibliophile Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), bound for him, with his notes and signature dated 1778; by descent to John Edmund Severne (sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 21 January 1886, lot 2475).
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