£700
GUILLAUME BUDE. DE ASSE ET PARTIBUS EIUS LIBRI QUINQUE, 1522. Venice: House of Aldus, 1522. 8vo. 265pp (plus colophon). Latin, Greek. Vellum boards, likely 18th or 19th century, with gilt tooling, red morocco labels, and gilt embossed crest to front cover. Some light staining and rubbing to covers. A slight tear at top of front inner hinge. Marbled endpapers. Red painted edges. Title and last leaf printed with Aldus' anchor device. Front several pages lightly age-toned, the rest remarkably bright and clean and clear. Armorial plate of Yorkshire bookseller Edward Hailstone to front pastedown. An attractive, beautifully bound, and well-preserved copy of the work on ancient Roman measures and humanistic studies that made Bude famous.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Edward Hailstone. Hailstone was a prominant antiquarian bookseller in Yorkshire during the mid to late 1800s. His library was mostly bequeathed to York Minster, but a few were sold at Christies in the 1890s; this copy is possibly one of those sales. Accompanying letter from the Caroline Skeel Library at Westfield College to Mr P.W. Dyson, dated 1977, together with catalogue slip from an antiquarian sale (possibly Swiss). From a private collection by descent to the vendor.
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