Claudianus, Opera, Venice, Aldus, 1523, Venetian brown morocco gilt by Mendoza Binder

Claudianus, Claudius. Cl. Claudiani Opera quam diligentissime castigata, quorum indicem in sequenti pagina reperies. Venice: heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, March 1523

8vo (164 x 100 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-y⁸: 176 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (Wormholes to upper margin.)

binding: Venetian binding of brown morocco (170 x 110 mm), attributed to the Mendoza Binder, framed by two gilt fillets and containing border of solid leafy tools, with central undulating lozenge enclosing author's name ("CLA / VDIA / NVS"), spine with three raised bands and four semi-raised bands, first and fourth compartments gilt-lettered, other with repeat rope and tool pattern tooled in blind, edges gilt and gauffered to knotwork pattern. In clamshell case. (Extremities a trifle rubbed, lower joint restored.)

provenance: John Wyndham Bruce-Pryce (bookplate to front pastedown as well as ownership inscription) — Bernard Quaritch (collation note to lower pastedown). acquisition: Purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal, San Francisco, 1977. references: UCLA 218; Edit16 12668; Renouard 96/1; A. Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting (1999), Appendix 5: The Mendoza Binder, no. 226