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VERGILIUS MARO, Publius. Opera . Edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius Lyons: Jacques Sacon, for Ciriac Hochperg, August 20-5 December 1517. 2 parts in one volume, 2° (315 x 218mm). Title to each part printed in red and black within woodcut architectural border, full-page woodcut of Virgil and the muse Calliope, 207 other wooduts, almost all of which are half of three-quarter-page, by the Master of the Grüninger workshop, woodcut initials in several styles; woodcuts occasionally touched lightly with colour (green or yellow). Text with commentary surround or double column, Roman type, also some Greek in commentary. (Small marginal wormhole in first quire, repaired in first 3 leaves, occasional very light staining or browning.) 19th-century red morocco, gilt fillet border, gilt spine, (very slightly scuffed, spine slightly faded), g.e. Provenance : occasional 16th-century marginal notes and underlining; Thomas Hodgkin of Newcastle (bookplate); J.P.R. Lyell (bookplate). FIRST LYONS BADIUS EDITION. The fine woodcut series appearing here was first used in the Grüninger edition, edited by Sebastian Brant in 1502. Some of the blocks appeared again in Murner's translation into German of the Aeneid , also printed by Grüninger in 1515, after which they were immediately sent to Sacon at Lyons for this edition. The power of the illustrations, which made the Grüninger edition one of the greatest German woodcut books, is hardly mitigated here. Like previous Badius editions, this one printed at Lyons retains the verses by Sebastian Brant and includes a prologue by Cristoforo Landino and commentary by Filippo Beroaldo and others in addition to Badius. Mortimer Harvard French 537; Renouard Badius Ascensius III, 370-2.