PLUTARCH

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      Paris: Badius Ascensius. 1521. Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards (head and tail of spine repaired; new end-papers), decorated with ornamental rolls#11;BOUND WITH#11;CRINITO, Pietro. De Honesta Disciplina, Lib. xxv; De Peotis Latinis Lib. v; et Poematum, Lib. II cu indicibseu capitibus singluorum operu; cuqz tabellis alphabeticis rerum, dictorumqz insigniu ad finem capitum de honesta disciplina, ab Ascensio collectis & appositis. Paris: Badius Ascenius, 1520. [8], 109, [1] leaves, 1 blank leaf. With woodcut title- border and printer's device (of a press in a printer's shop; with monogram IB); large woodcut intials. Two pages of early manuscript in same hand as on first title-page (appears to be French verse). Folio . I. New revised second (1st: 1514) and much enlarged edition of this collection of the miscellaneous works by Plutarch which were translated by various hands here edited by Badius. On the verso of the title-page appears Badius' dedicatory letter to Louis Ruze (dated July 1521).Translations from the Greek by Niccolo Sagundino, Angelo Poliziano, Guillaume Bude, Willibald Pirckheimer, Philippe Melanchthon, Erasmus of Rotterdam, and eight others. One of Erasmus' translations includes his original dedication to Henry VIII (leaf CLV verso). Included here is his "Politica," "De Liberis educandis," "Apophthegmata," "De Placitis Philosoph.," "Musica," "Problemata," "De Odio & Invidia," "De Fortuna Romano." "De Claris Mulieribus," "De Exilio, and many others.#11;No copies located of this or the 1514 edition located in the OCLC (1 copy of the 1526 edition: Huntington).#11; II. This is the fourth Badius edition, augmented and revised, of these popular texts by the Florentine poet and humansit, Pietro Crinito (1465-1505), who had been a pupil of Angelo Poliziano and friend of Pico della Mirandola. De honesta disciplina, based on the model of Gellius' Noctes Atticae, is a miscellany of notes on classical literature, history, archaelology, etc. De poetis Latinis, (1st: 1505) has the distinction of being the first "modern" history of Roman literautre, containing the biographies of all the major Latin poets.#11;OCLC locates only only Harvard University copy in the US of the Crinito volume.#11;Desirable sammelband of two important and rare humanistic works which are also of particular interest in the history of printing. The two titles feature the two different famous printer's devices of Josse Badius (1462-1535), the first scholar-printer in France, which includes the first use of a printing press. The earlier device (in Crinito), which is signed "IB", included errors that had to be corrected in a new version (Plutarchus) ascribed to the school of Albrecht Durer (see Bigmore-Wymann.). Regarding this device; Renouard, II, Marques typographiques, Pl. B 6, 2-3, for J. Major's Historia Britanniae, 1521; Renouard calls this 2-2 at II:#561; "ascribed to the hand of Durer and contains a figure strongly resembling the Master himself" (H. W. Davies, Devices of the early printer, #247). The two devices seem to feature here in their very earliest use [14], 181 leaves, 1 blank leaf. With woodcut title-border and woodcut printer's device (of a press in a printer's shop; dated 1520); large woodcut intials. Early ownership inscription along bottom of title-page. Few minor damp marks in a few blank margins. ! I. Renouard, Imprimeurs & Libr. Parisiens p. 206, no. 493; cf. Hollstein VII, 274 (for 1st printer's device).#11; II. Renouard, Badius II, p., 353 no. 5; Renouard, Imprimeurs & Librares II, p. 190, no. 448; Moreau II, 2303; Adams C 2950;Bigmore- Wyman 29 (for 2nd woodcut device); IA 147.087 and (2nd work only);