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Juvenalis, Decimus Junius and Aulus Persius Flaccus. Iuuenalis. Persius. [Lyon: Baldazare de Gabiano for? Barthélemy Trot? 1512?] [Bound with:] Catullus. Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius. Cornelii Galli poetae memoratissimi; aut ut quidam volunt Maximiani quae recolligi potuere fragmenta. Lyon: [Jacques Myt? for] Barthélemy Trot, 22 September 1518 Two Aldine counterfeits, in a contemporary English binding by Garrett Godfrey. “The fleur de lys is associated with the bookseller Barthélemy Trot” (Shaw, Juv84). 2 works in one volume, 8vo (164 x 99 mm). Italic type, 30 and 32 lines plus headline. collation: A-G8 H10 a8 b4: 78 unnumbered leaves; a-t8: 152 unnumbered leaves. Red fleur-de-lis to first title-page, the second printed in black and red within a decorative woodcut frame, extensive annotations in early hands. (Occasional soiling and edgewear, the Catullus lightly dampstained.) binding: Contemporary English calf over pasteboards (170 x 101 mm) signed "G.G." (Garrett Godfrey, active 1513-1539), a "normal" binding by the Cambridge stationer; Godfrey's roll (Oldham HE b(2) 747) forming vertical and horizontal sides of a frame, center panel filled by diaper stamp (Oldham D1 (a) 593), traces of two pairs of ties, two leaves from a Flemish(?) Book of Hours used as pastedowns. Housed in a brown cloth clamshell case. (Rubbed, crackled, damaged at tail of spine and edges of boards, leather at head of spine shrunken.) provenance: Unidentified owner(s), inscription, "James Fairland [or Fairliend], 1524," on title-page of Juvenalis, instruction to binder (or the bookbinder Garrett Godfrey's aide memoire) "In Lethers" on title-page of Catullus, extensive contemporary marginalia in both volumes — unidentified owner, inscription, "Rugot," on title-page of Catullus — unidentified owner, inscription, "Thomas Scrilieretus [or Scriberetus?]," on verso of flyleaf. acquisition: Purchased from Alan G. Thomas, London, 1978. references: (1) UCLA 1149; Renouard 305/2; Shaw, “Lyons counterfeit,” no. 52; Shaw, online Bibliography Juv84; Baudrier, VIII, 417; Gültlingen, II, p. 107: 17; FB78157; USTC 123605; (2) UCLA 1161; Renouard 313/49; Shaw, “Lyons Counterfeit” 63; Baudrier, VIII, 432; Gültlingen, II, p. 110: 41; FB 60509; USTC 144858