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Juvenalis, Decimus Junius and Aulus Persius Flaccus. Iuuenalis. Persius. Venice: Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, August 1501 [but circa 1515] A third copy. 8vo (149 x 96 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-G8 H10 a8 b4: 78 leaves (numbered 76). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page, faint early marginalia. (Washed, occasional light staining.) binding: Contemporary brown morocco (154 x 100), probably Bologna, blind-tooled fillet border containing repeated tendril and flower tool, cornerpieces of serrated arc containing leafy form, central roundel composed of the four cornerpiece tools, traces of four pairs of ties, spine with three full bands, compartments blind-tooled with repeated horizontal lines. (Covers lightly stained, spine refurbished with restoration to head and tail compartments, upper hinge cracked.) provenance: Carlo Alberto Chiesa, Milan. acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Lardanchet, Paris, 2015. references: UCLA 140; Renouard 29/6; Edit16 37426; USTC 762326