Calpurnius Siculus (Titus)

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      [Rome: Conradus Sweynheym & Arnoldus Pannartz]. , not before 5 April, 1471 38 lines, type 115R., capital spaces, single wormhole running through, small stain to the margin of the first two leaves, ownership inscriptions on the front endpaper, slip identifying the work and giving a reference to Boxhorn in a seventeenth century manuscript hand, pasted in to face the first leaf, 15 leaves [ff. 166-180], folio early twentieth century red half morocco, the backstrip lettered vertically in gilt, by Maltby with their stamp inside the front cover, bookplates, good Profoundly influential, Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, introduced the art of printing to Italy, where they produced Cicero's De Oratore in 1465 at a Benedictine abbey in Subiaco on the outskirts of Rome. The set of types they used (Typ.1:120R) is said to have been the first Roman type, and later, Ashendene Press printed books using an imitation of this typeface. Their work also influenced William Morris. Sweynheym and Pannartz moved to Rome in 1467, and by 1475 they had printed 50 works using a new Roman type. They intended, according to their own list of publications, that the above work was bound after Silius Italicus. Punica (5 April, 1471), 165 leaves, and followed by Hesiod. Opera, 12 leaves, making 194 ununumbered leaves in all. Provenance: The inscription on the endpaper is that of Cuthbert Hamilton Turner, Magdelen College, Oxford, 925. Turner, ecclesiastical historian and New Testament scholar, 1860-1930, spent his mature life in Oxford as a research fellow. The bookplate (by Emery Walker), is that of John Waynflete Carter, who also inscribed it, at the foot of the endpaper, with a note, in Latin, stating that the book was bought from Blackwell’s and bound by Maltby’s. This is John Carter, the well-known bibliographer and bookseller, 1905-1975. In addition there is a note which explains what how the work was issued by Sweynheym and Pannartz. Goff S503; BMC IV 13; Hain 14733 (Silius only)] [Attributes: Hard Cover]