VALERE MAXIME

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VALERE MAXIME
Dictorum factorumque memorabilium libri IX. Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1574. In-8, 392 pp., 99 pp. and 6 ff.n.ch.: overlapping soft calfskin, double gilt fillet, spandrels, central cartouche with interlacing motifs and reserve centre, traces of laces, smooth spine decorated, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Second edition printed by Plantin, with his compass mark on the title, of Facts and Memorable Facts by Valère Maxime. The first Plantinian edition appeared in 1567. Both were drawn up and commented on by Etienne Wynants (1520-1604), a humanist from the Netherlands known as Pighius, secretary and librarian to the Cardinal of Granvelle, then tutor to the eldest son of the Duke of Cleves. The Valère Maxime de Pighius was extraordinarily successful in his time: based on a dozen excellent manuscripts, his text was corrected in more than 800 passages and accompanied by more than 1300 notes (see Roersch, L'Humanisme belge à l'époque de la Renaissance, 1910, p. 140). A very pure copy in an attractive contemporary gilt vellum binding. It has several old underlines and a few marginal pennotes. Handwritten ex-libris on a guard: G. Lanzoni 1697. Small repair in the white of the title. (Voet, The Plantin Press V, no. 2411-Dibdin, Rare and valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, II, p. 521).
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