[Rarebooks] fa: ERASMUS' Edition of LIVY - HANS HOLBEIN - BASEL: FROBEN 1531

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Titus Livius [Desiderius Erasmus, ed.:] En magnis impendiis, summisque  
laboribus damus amice lector T. Liuii Patauini Latinae Historiae  
principis quicquid hactenus fuit æditum, sed aliquanto quàm antea, tum  
magnificentius, tum emaculatius... Basileae [Basel]: in officina  
Frobeniana, mense Martio anno M.D.XXXI [1531]. First edition. Tall  
folio (39 x 36 cm; 15.25 x 10.25 in.) in marbled boards with vellum  
spine and corners, leather spine labels stamped in gilt; [8], 244,  
243, [1], 210, [2], 91, [73] p.; separate title-page for Decade V;  
woodcut printer's devices (2 t-ps and 2 colophons) and historiated  
woodcut initials. Brunet III, 1105.

Edited by Desiderius Erasmus, this edition was the first to contain  
the missing books of Livy (41-5), famously discovered by Simon  
Grynaeus in the Benedictine abbey of Lorsch. Many of the delightful  
woodcut initials are by Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1497-1543), who  
designed Froben's printer's device and was a frequent contributor to  
the publisher's editions.