Henricus Glareanus (Heinrich Loriti). Henrici Glareani In Titum Livium annotationes cum chronologia eiusdem; Cui Badii accessit Elenchus, ad haec Laur. Valle de quibusdam apud Liuium locis iudicium. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1542. Bound with:
Beatus Rhenanus (Beat Bild), In Titum Livium Annotationes per Beatum Rhenanum, & Sigismundam Gelenium. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1542. Bound with:
Titus Livius, Titi Livii Patavini Decadum XIIII. Epitome. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1542
This volume is from a set of Titus Livius’s works acquired by Thomas Wotton (1521–1586/1587) in France, most probably on a journey he made there in December 1547. The set was given to a Parisian binder, who bound it uniformly in four volumes, in brown calf, tooled in gold to a geometrical design, with Wotton’s name and the “et amicorum” formula centered on each cover. It descended within his family, then collaterally, until 1919, when it was consigned for sale to Sotheby’s by the Earl of Carnarvon and dispersed in separate lots (two were bought by Quaritch, and two by Maggs). One volume has since entered the Houghton Library, Harvard University; two volumes have not been seen since the 1960s.
Wotton’s taste for elaborate gold-tooled bindings and his adoption of the “et amicorum” formula have earned him the posthumous sobriquet “the English Grolier.” About 140 volumes from Wotton’s library are known. The fine bindings seem to have been acquired on four visits to Paris, in 1547, ca 1549, 1551, and ca. 1552. This set of Livius probably was purchased and bound on his first trip, when Wotton attended a binding atelier busy with commissions received from François I, Jean Grolier, Charles de Lorraine, and Cardinal Granvelle, among other noted bibliophiles. Here Wotton presumably was introduced to the tooled Grolieresque “et amicorum” ownership inscription and to Grolier’s preferences for plain gilt edges and no ties. Wotton may have ordered as many as thirty bindings from this anonymous shop, designated by Mirjam Foot “Wotton’s Binder A.” The shop closed about 1550. On his next trip to Paris Wotton visited another atelier and chose to decorate his bindings with armorial stamps.
Wotton's presumed set
The set is described by William Kemp as comprising six volumes, but by Baudrier (VIII, p.173) as five volumes, with Decadum XIIII Epitome designated “Decas quintus,” the Glareanus entered separately (pp. 163–164), and the Beatus Rhenanus and Gelenius, also entered separately (pp. 164–165).
(1) T. Livii Patavini Latinae historiae principis decas prima (Lyon, apud Sébastien Gryphe, 1542) [FB 77966; USTC 122670]. Thomas Wotton (supralibros). — Stanhope, Earls of Chesterfield, family library (Bretby); George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923); Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of valuable printed books, illuminated manuscripts and autograph letters, London, 8-11 April 1919, lot 20 — Bernard Quaritch, London - bought in sale (£125); their A Catalogue of English and foreign bookbindings (London 1921), item 11 and Pl. 5 (£160); Catalogue 386: A catalogue of books printed in Europe during the fifteenth & sixteenth centuries. Part II. Books printed in the sixteenth century (London 1929), item 833 (£160) — Jean Fürstenberg (1890–1982). Current location not traced.Moss, op. cit., no. 21; Exposition de reliures de la Renaissance: collection Jean Furstenberg: 30 September 1961 (Paris, 1961), no. 108.
(2) T. Livii Patavini Latinae historiae decas tertia (Lyon, apud Sébastien Gryphe, 1542) [FB 77968; USTC 156883]. Thomas Wotton (supralibros). Stanhope, Earls of Chesterfield, family library (Bretby); George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923); Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of valuable printed books, illuminated manuscripts and autograph letters, London, 8-11 April 1919, lot 21 — Bernard Quaritch, London - bought in sale (£108); their Catalogue of English and foreign bookbindings (London 1921), item 12 (£160) — Templeton Crocker (1884-1948) — Warren Howell, San Francisco; their Catalogue 11: Rare Books and manuscripts: English literature: voyages, travels & early chronicles: Californiana & Western Americana: history of science (San Francisco, 1961), item 10; Catalogue 11: English Literature (San Francisco 1963), item 57 ($1250). Current location not traced.Moss, op. cit., no. 22.
(3) Titi Livii Patavini Latinae historiae principis decas quarta (Lyon, apud Sébastien Gryphe, 1542) [FB 77967; USTC 156884]. Thomas Wotton (supralibros). — Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), exlibris; Stanhope, Earls of Chesterfield, family library (Bretby); George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923); Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of valuable printed books, illuminated manuscripts and autograph letters, London, 8-11 April 1919, lot 22 — Maggs Bros, London - bought in sale (£41) — William King Richardson, his bequest 1951, to — Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, shelfmark WKR 18.2.13. Moss, op. cit., no. 23; Foot, op. cit., p.137 (note 50).
(4-5-6) Titi Livii Patavini Latinae historiae principis decadis quintae libri V (Lyon, apud Sébastien Gryphe, 1542), bound with: Titi Livii Patavini decadum XIIII epitome (Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1542), bound with: Henricus Glareanus and Lorenzo Valla, Titi In Titum Livium annotationes, cum chronologia (Lyon, apud Sébastien Gryphe, 1542). The volume offered here.
3 works in one volume, 8vo (164 x 104 mm). Italic type, 31 lines plus headline. (I) collation: AA–ZZZ8 AAA–KKK8 a–i8: 336 leaves. Woodcut printer's devices on title-page and i8v, woodcut initials. (II) Italic type, 31 lines plus headline. collation: aaA–ppP8: 120 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, one woodcut initial. (III) Italic type, 31 lines plus headline. collation: AAA–FFF8: 48 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, two unsigned bifolia at end, the first a full-sheet letterpress table, "De Cornelia gente fratres," the second a full-sheet letterpress plan, "Roma a acies / Antiochi egis acies." Entire volumes ruled in red. (Very occasional light soiling or spotting, chiefly marginal.)
binding: Parisian light brown calf over wooden boards (172 x 115 mm), ca. 1547, by “Wotton Binder A” for Thomas Wotton, richly gilt, interlaced strapwork border and central cartouche with leaf finials, strapwork painted black, interstices filled with semé of gold dots and gilt leaves, gilt leaf at outer corners, THOMAE WOTTONI | ET AMICORVM in gilt on both covers, gilt edges. (Very finely rebacked prior to 1919, copying the original spine.) Tan buckram folding-case, red morocco label.
provenance: Thomas Wotton (supralibros, “Thomae Wottoni et amicorum” in gilt on both covers), by descent to — his son, Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton (1548–1628), thence to — his grandson Thomas Wotton, 2nd Baron Wotton (1587–1630), thence to — his great-granddaughter Katherine (1609–1667), later created Countess of Chesterfield, by descent to — Lady Evelyn Stanhope (1834–1875), sister of the 7th Earl of Chesterfield, thence to her son, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866–1923; incorporated into his family library at Bretby Hall, Derbyshire; Sotheby’s, London, 8–11 April 1919, lot 57), purchased by — James Tregaskis, London (£42; their 815th Caxton Head catalogue, [1919], item 226 (£115), & 902nd Caxton Head catalogue, [1925], item 428 (£115) — Sotheby’s, London, 12–15 December 1927, lot 501, purchased by — Maggs Bros, London (£70) — John Henry Montagu Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland (1886–1940; his stamps of Belvoir Castle Library) — Marlborough Rare Books, London (Catalogue 146, [1992], item 7 (£12,500). acquisition: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, London, 2003.
references: (I) FB 72217; USTC 140467; Baudrier, VIII, p. 163; Gültlingen, V, p.122: 721; (II) FB 56558; USTC 140466; Baudrier, VIII, p.164; Gültlingen, V, p.115: 675; (III) FB 77965; USTC 122674; Baudrier, VIII, p.173; Gültlingen, V, p.126: 747; for the binding, see Moss, The English Grolier. A Catalogue of Books in Gold-Tooled Bindings from the Library of Thomas Wotton (Worth, 1941–1942), no. 24 (“Owner unknown”); for Wotton’s binders, see: Nixon, Twelve Books in Fine Bindings from the Library of J.W. Hely-Hutchinson ([Oxford], 1953), pp. 32–48; Foot, “Thomas Wotton and his binders,” in The Henry Davis Gift : A Collection of Bookbindings, Volume 1: Studies in the History of Bookbinding (London, 1978), pp. 134, 137 (note 50), 145. For the presumed set, see: Kemp, “L’historien latin Tite-Live chez Sébastien Gryphe au début des années 1540,” in Le Livre médiéval et humaniste dans les Collections de l’UQAM (Montréal, 2006), pp. 93–98 (pp. 95–96); Kemp, "Les historiens latins chez Gryphe au début des années 1540: Tite-Live, Tacite et l'humaniste Emilio Ferretti," in Quid novi?: Sébastien Gryphe à l'occasion du 450e anniversaire de sa mort: actes du colloque (Villeurbanne, [2008]), pp. 343–356 (p. 343).
Henricus Glareanus (Heinrich Loriti). Henrici Glareani In Titum Livium annotationes cum chronologia eiusdem; Cui Badii accessit Elenchus, ad haec Laur. Valle de quibusdam apud Liuium locis iudicium. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1542. Bound with:
Beatus Rhenanus (Beat Bild), In Titum Livium Annotationes per Beatum Rhenanum, & Sigismundam Gelenium. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1542. Bound with:
Titus Livius, Titi Livii Patavini Decadum XIIII. Epitome. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1542
This volume is from a set of Titus Livius’s works acquired by Thomas Wotton (1521–1586/1587) in France, most probably on a journey he made there in December 1547. The set was given to a Parisian binder, who bound it uniformly in four volumes, in brown calf, tooled in gold to a geometrical design, with Wotton’s name and the “et amicorum” formula centered on each cover. It descended within his family, then collaterally, until 1919, when it was consigned for sale to Sotheby’s by the Earl of Carnarvon and dispersed in separate lots (two were bought by Quaritch, and two by Maggs). One volume has since entered the Houghton Library, Harvard University; two volumes have not been seen since the 1960s.
Wotton’s taste for elaborate gold-tooled bindings and his adoption of the “et amicorum” formula have earned him the posthumous sobriquet “the English Grolier.” About 140 volumes from Wotton’s library are known. The fine bindings seem to have been acquired on four visits to Paris, in 1547, ca 1549, 1551, and ca. 1552. This set of Livius probably was purchased and bound on his first trip, when Wotton attended a binding atelier busy with commissions received from François I, Jean Grolier, Charles de Lorraine, and Cardinal Granvelle, among other noted bibliophiles. Here Wotton presumably was introduced to the tooled Grolieresque “et amicorum” ownership inscription and to Grolier’s preferences for plain gilt edges and no ties. Wotton may have ordered as many as thirty bindings from this anonymous shop, designated by Mirjam Foot “Wotton’s Binder A.” The shop closed about 1550. On his next trip to Paris Wotton visited another atelier and chose to decorate his bindings with armorial stamps.
Wotton's presumed set
The set is described by William Kemp as comprising six volumes, but by Baudrier (VIII, p.173) as five volumes, with Decadum XIIII Epitome designated “Decas quintus,” the Glareanus entered separately (pp. 163–164), and the Beatus Rhenanus and Gelenius, also entered separately (pp. 164–165).
(1) T. Livii Patavini Latinae historiae principis decas prima (Lyon, apud Sébastien Gryphe, 1542) [FB 77966; USTC 122670]. Thomas Wotton (supralibros). — Stanhope, Earls of Chesterfield, family library (Bretby); George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923); Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of valuable printed books, illuminated manuscripts and autograph letters, London, 8-11 April 1919, lot 20 — Bernard Quaritch, London - bought in sale (£125); their A Catalogue of English and foreign bookbindings (London 1921), item 11 and Pl. 5 (£160); Catalogue 386: A catalogue of books printed in Europe during the fifteenth & sixteenth centuries. Part II. Books printed in the sixteenth century (London 1929), item 833 (£160) — Jean Fürstenberg (1890–1982). Current location not traced.Moss, op. cit., no. 21; Exposition de reliures de la Renaissance: collection Jean Furstenberg: 30 September 1961 (Paris, 1961), no. 108.
(2) T. Livii Patavini Latinae historiae decas tertia (Lyon, apud Sébastien Gryphe, 1542) [FB 77968; USTC 156883]. Thomas Wotton (supralibros). Stanhope, Earls of Chesterfield, family library (Bretby); George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923); Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of valuable printed books, illuminated manuscripts and autograph letters, London, 8-11 April 1919, lot 21 — Bernard Quaritch, London - bought in sale (£108); their Catalogue of English and foreign bookbindings (London 1921), item 12 (£160) — Templeton Crocker (1884-1948) — Warren Howell, San Francisco; their Catalogue 11: Rare Books and manuscripts: English literature: voyages, travels & early chronicles: Californiana & Western Americana: history of science (San Francisco, 1961), item 10; Catalogue 11: English Literature (San Francisco 1963), item 57 ($1250). Current location not traced.Moss, op. cit., no. 22.
(3) Titi Livii Patavini Latinae historiae principis decas quarta (Lyon, apud Sébastien Gryphe, 1542) [FB 77967; USTC 156884]. Thomas Wotton (supralibros). — Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), exlibris; Stanhope, Earls of Chesterfield, family library (Bretby); George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923); Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of valuable printed books, illuminated manuscripts and autograph letters, London, 8-11 April 1919, lot 22 — Maggs Bros, London - bought in sale (£41) — William King Richardson, his bequest 1951, to — Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, shelfmark WKR 18.2.13. Moss, op. cit., no. 23; Foot, op. cit., p.137 (note 50).
(4-5-6) Titi Livii Patavini Latinae historiae principis decadis quintae libri V (Lyon, apud Sébastien Gryphe, 1542), bound with: Titi Livii Patavini decadum XIIII epitome (Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1542), bound with: Henricus Glareanus and Lorenzo Valla, Titi In Titum Livium annotationes, cum chronologia (Lyon, apud Sébastien Gryphe, 1542). The volume offered here.
3 works in one volume, 8vo (164 x 104 mm). Italic type, 31 lines plus headline. (I) collation: AA–ZZZ8 AAA–KKK8 a–i8: 336 leaves. Woodcut printer's devices on title-page and i8v, woodcut initials. (II) Italic type, 31 lines plus headline. collation: aaA–ppP8: 120 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, one woodcut initial. (III) Italic type, 31 lines plus headline. collation: AAA–FFF8: 48 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, two unsigned bifolia at end, the first a full-sheet letterpress table, "De Cornelia gente fratres," the second a full-sheet letterpress plan, "Roma a acies / Antiochi egis acies." Entire volumes ruled in red. (Very occasional light soiling or spotting, chiefly marginal.)
binding: Parisian light brown calf over wooden boards (172 x 115 mm), ca. 1547, by “Wotton Binder A” for Thomas Wotton, richly gilt, interlaced strapwork border and central cartouche with leaf finials, strapwork painted black, interstices filled with semé of gold dots and gilt leaves, gilt leaf at outer corners, THOMAE WOTTONI | ET AMICORVM in gilt on both covers, gilt edges. (Very finely rebacked prior to 1919, copying the original spine.) Tan buckram folding-case, red morocco label.
provenance: Thomas Wotton (supralibros, “Thomae Wottoni et amicorum” in gilt on both covers), by descent to — his son, Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton (1548–1628), thence to — his grandson Thomas Wotton, 2nd Baron Wotton (1587–1630), thence to — his great-granddaughter Katherine (1609–1667), later created Countess of Chesterfield, by descent to — Lady Evelyn Stanhope (1834–1875), sister of the 7th Earl of Chesterfield, thence to her son, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866–1923; incorporated into his family library at Bretby Hall, Derbyshire; Sotheby’s, London, 8–11 April 1919, lot 57), purchased by — James Tregaskis, London (£42; their 815th Caxton Head catalogue, [1919], item 226 (£115), & 902nd Caxton Head catalogue, [1925], item 428 (£115) — Sotheby’s, London, 12–15 December 1927, lot 501, purchased by — Maggs Bros, London (£70) — John Henry Montagu Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland (1886–1940; his stamps of Belvoir Castle Library) — Marlborough Rare Books, London (Catalogue 146, [1992], item 7 (£12,500). acquisition: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, London, 2003.
references: (I) FB 72217; USTC 140467; Baudrier, VIII, p. 163; Gültlingen, V, p.122: 721; (II) FB 56558; USTC 140466; Baudrier, VIII, p.164; Gültlingen, V, p.115: 675; (III) FB 77965; USTC 122674; Baudrier, VIII, p.173; Gültlingen, V, p.126: 747; for the binding, see Moss, The English Grolier. A Catalogue of Books in Gold-Tooled Bindings from the Library of Thomas Wotton (Worth, 1941–1942), no. 24 (“Owner unknown”); for Wotton’s binders, see: Nixon, Twelve Books in Fine Bindings from the Library of J.W. Hely-Hutchinson ([Oxford], 1953), pp. 32–48; Foot, “Thomas Wotton and his binders,” in The Henry Davis Gift : A Collection of Bookbindings, Volume 1: Studies in the History of Bookbinding (London, 1978), pp. 134, 137 (note 50), 145. For the presumed set, see: Kemp, “L’historien latin Tite-Live chez Sébastien Gryphe au début des années 1540,” in Le Livre médiéval et humaniste dans les Collections de l’UQAM (Montréal, 2006), pp. 93–98 (pp. 95–96); Kemp, "Les historiens latins chez Gryphe au début des années 1540: Tite-Live, Tacite et l'humaniste Emilio Ferretti," in Quid novi?: Sébastien Gryphe à l'occasion du 450e anniversaire de sa mort: actes du colloque (Villeurbanne, [2008]), pp. 343–356 (p. 343).
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