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SYSTON PARK COPY OF ALDINE HOMER. HOMER. [Works in Greek] Ilias [and] Ulyssea. Batrachomyomachi...

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SYSTON PARK COPY OF ALDINE HOMER. HOMER. [Works in Greek] Ilias [and] Ulyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni XXXII. Venice: Aldus, June 1517 [and] April 1524. 2 volumes. 8vo. Text in greek, with Aldus's address to Girolamo Aleandro in Latin, woodcut Aldine device to both title pages, and verso of final leaf in volume 2; Iliad lacking final blank MM6. Straight-grain red morocco, encircled gilt Aldine anchor device to covers, gauffered edges, by Roger Payne, titled and dated on spine, misdating volume 1 '1524.' Provenance: Syston Park, Sir John Thorold (1734-1815) and Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831, bookplate); sold Syston Park Library, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, December 16, 1884, lot 949; Maurice Baring (poet and novelist, 1874-1945, his bookplate); Alan Noel Latimer Munby (author and collector, 1913-1974, ex libris); Edward John Kenney (distinguished Cambridge latinist, 1924-2019). SYSTON PARK COPY OF ALDINE HOMER, THE SECOND ALDINE EDITION OF THE ILIAD AND THIRD ALDINE EDITION OF THE ODYSSEY. A fine copy of the famed Homer with a distinguished provenance. Although the Syston Park Library catalogue had this as the 1524 (with a loose 1524 colophon laid-in), close collation reveals that volume 1 (The Iliad) is actually the 1517 edition, with the earlier Aldine device and collation. Ahmanson-Murphy 153, 226; Renouard 80.3, 98:1; Adams H742, H745. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing

SYSTON PARK COPY OF ALDINE HOMER. HOMER. [Works in Greek] Ilias [and] Ulyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni XXXII. Venice: Aldus, June 1517 [and] April 1524. 2 volumes. 8vo. Text in greek, with Aldus's address to Girolamo Aleandro in Latin, woodcut Aldine device to both title pages, and verso of final leaf in volume 2; Iliad lacking final blank MM6. Straight-grain red morocco, encircled gilt Aldine anchor device to covers, gauffered edges, by Roger Payne, titled and dated on spine, misdating volume 1 '1524.' Provenance: Syston Park, Sir John Thorold (1734-1815) and Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831, bookplate); sold Syston Park Library, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, December 16, 1884, lot 949; Maurice Baring (poet and novelist, 1874-1945, his bookplate); Alan Noel Latimer Munby (author and collector, 1913-1974, ex libris); Edward John Kenney (distinguished Cambridge latinist, 1924-2019). SYSTON PARK COPY OF ALDINE HOMER, THE SECOND ALDINE EDITION OF THE ILIAD AND THIRD ALDINE EDITION OF THE ODYSSEY. A fine copy of the famed Homer with a distinguished provenance. Although the Syston Park Library catalogue had this as the 1524 (with a loose 1524 colophon laid-in), close collation reveals that volume 1 (The Iliad) is actually the 1517 edition, with the earlier Aldine device and collation. Ahmanson-Murphy 153, 226; Renouard 80.3, 98:1; Adams H742, H745. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing

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