Beschreibung:

pseudo-Catullus.- Phaselus et ad eam quotquot extant parodiae, cum annotationibus doctissimorum virorum, edited by Claude du Verdier, collation: a-h12 I6, title with woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, final f. with colophon within woodcut decorative border, otherwise blank, title spotted, corners water-stained, Lyon, Thomas Soubron, 1593 bound with Aegidius Bavarius. Musa Catholica Maronis, sive Catechismus Maroniano Carmine Expressus, title with woodcut device, penultimate f. approbation, final f. with woodcut printer's device, otherwise blank, occasional spotting, lightly browned, Antwerp, 1622, together 2 works in 1 vol., 17th century mottled vellum, upper corners worn, 16mo (130 x 79mm.) ⁂ The rare greatly expanded second edition of this important collection of Catullan parodies. Bound in are 2ff. of ms. copies of parodies by the 17th-century Jesuit Gabriel Cossartius. The first edition bears a spurious York imprint (see lot 223). Literature: Not in Adams.