Cleynaerts, Institutiones linguae Graecae, Venice, Aldus, 1570, later calf

Cleynaerts, Nicolaas. Nicolai Clenardi Institutiones linguae Graecae cum scholiis et praxi P. Antesignani. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, 1570

8vo (152 x 99 mm). Italic and Greek type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: *⁸ **⁴ A-Z⁸ Aa-Nn⁸: 300 leaves (Ll6-8 and Nn7-8 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page, woodcut portrait of Aldus the elder on verso of title-page, woodcut initials. (Occasional light damp-staining.)

binding: Old calf with blind-ruling on covers (159 x 114 mm), spine with gilt fillets around raised bands, title lettered along foot of textblock. (Binding slightly rubbed, spine slightly chipped.)

provenance: J.R. Crawfurd, inscription on flyleaf dated Venice, January 1844 — L.F.E. Foxell, pencil inscription on flyleaf dated May 1946 — Alan G. Thomas, note on flyleaf dated 1977 and the price £70. acquisition: Purchased from Alan G. Thomas, London, 1977. references: UCLA 826; Edit16 12703; Renouard 208/2