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Marcus Valerius Martialis. Martialis. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, December 1517 Possibly Grolier's copy. 8vo (160 x 93 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 &8: 192 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and verso of final leaf, illuminated initials. (Foxing.) binding: Late eighteenth-century English blue morocco (165 x 102 mm), bound by Roger Payne, later gilt anchor and dolphin device added to covers, spine with raised bands in six compartments, second and fifth gilt-lettered, edges gilt and gauffered, marbled endleaves. (Wear to extremities.) provenance: Possible Roman bookseller's mark ("3 . 30") below Aldine device on title — Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, 3rd Bt. (1771-1823), his sale, R.H. Evans, London, 28 May-3 June 1824, lot 335 — Thomas Thorpe London, purchased in previous sale — Sir John Hayford Thorold, 10th Bt. (1773-1831) — Sir John Henry Thorold, 12th Bt. (1842-1922), his sale, Sotheby's London, 12-19 December 1884, lot 1327 ("probably Grolier's copy...") — Bernard Quaritch, London, purchased in previous sale; A Rough list...comprising the choicer portion of the library of the late Sir John Hayford Thorold, Bart... London 1885, item 339; catalogue VI, item 36853 ("with the initial letters beautifully illuminated in gold and colours, as in books from the library of Grolier") — Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe (1812-1894), bookplate to front free endpaper. acquisition: Purchased from Libreria Bourlot, Turin, 1998. references: UCLA 161; Renouard 81/11; Edit16 37562; USTC 841155