OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS.

DE FASTIS CUM DUOBUS COMMENTARIIS: ANTONII DE FANO ET PAULI MARSI. VENICE, JOHANNES TACUINUS DE TRIDINO, 14. X. 1502.

      Folio. (4), 199, (1) ff. Blindstamped contemp. Italian half calf over wooden boards. Remains of 1 clasp; 2nd clasp intact. Rare 2nd ed. of this early separate issue of Ovid�s poetic calendar (first Tacuino ed. publ. 1497). �Texte encadre' par le commentaire; 62 ll. par page. Au-dessus du titre, bois au trait, emprunte du Perse, Satirae, 14 fevr, 1494� (Essling). Cf. Essling for the title woodcut: �Au-dessus du titre, bois au trait, le meme que dans le Juvenal, 28 janvier 1494, avec cette difference, que la partie mobile de droite, ou' sont representes deux commentateurs du poete, a ete remplace par une autre morceau, avec un seul personnage� (I.II.1, 238; cf. fig. on p. 237). - Clean copy, only a few contemp. marginalia and markings at the beginning with coloured pencil. Very slight worming at beginning and end (also concerning covers); small torn-out sections at edges restored professionally (mostly concerning only the margins; last 4 ff. also with slight loss to text in upper third of page). Endpapers renewed; damaged spine professionally rebacked with calfskin. Rare; no copy in USA; only 5 copies established worldwide (not in BSB); only 1 copy at auctions of the past 30 years internationally. Essling 1125 (I.II.2, 420). Edit 16, CNCE 53554. Cf. BM-STC Italian 481 (different commentator: �A. Constantinus� instead of �A. de Fano�). Cf. Adams O 456 (1508 ed.). Not in Dibdin, Moss, Schweiger.