Mirandula, Octavianus:

Illustrium poetarum flores [...]

      Argentorati [Strasbourg] ex aedibus Wendelini Rehelii [...] 1538 8vo. ff. [vii], cccxliv. Lacks preliminary leaf *8; woodcut printer’s device to final page; ownership inscription excised from the title, which has subsequently been laid down, and old marginal repair in the margin of leaf *2; there are a couple of old ink library stamps (marked ‘duplicate’, one on the pastedown and one on the verso of the title) and a marginal wormhole in the last few leaves of text. Later quarter calf, c. 1800, over green boards; fully gilt spine, slightly rubbed but sound. An early edition of Mirandula’s popular anthology of extracts from Latin poets, which range from Virgil to Boethius. Adams M-1473.