Gregory I, Saint

SECUNDUS DYALOGORUM LIBER BEATI GREGORII PAPE DE VITA AC MIRACULIS BEATISSIMI BENEDICTI

      Venice: Lucantonio Giunta.. 1505. y. 16mo. (4-1/2" x 3-1/2") ff.(8),192. Title printed in red with the woodcut Giunta device. Sections of text printed in red & black. Three fine full- page woodcuts, three other leaves with historiated woodcut borders. Text with 3 smaller woodcuts, and final leaf blank but for a fine woodcut device on the recto. Cont. full brown Italian morocco, gilt tooled & blind stamped. Gilt arabesque panel border on both covers, within which are two gilt leaf tools and a central "VTIS" within a circle. Both fore-edge clasps present (one is weak). A.e.g. with gauffered edges. Bottom of spine and corners of covers a bit worn, otherwise a beautiful copy.