Aldus Press Venedig 1521

ALDUS PRESS. SUETONIUS TTRANQUILLUS, GAIUS. (De vita caesarum). in hoc volumine haec continentur. c. suetonii tranquilli xii caesares... Venetiis (in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri) 1521.8:o. (60), 1-320 ll. Title and last leaf verso with woodcut printer's device. Later (17th century) full vellum. Ll. 41-43, 46-50 and 55-56 cut in the margins, probably inserted later. Title somewhat spotted, some foxing, about 10 leaves harder. Old marginal annotations. Bookplate of Seved Tegefors. A reprint of the 1516 Aldus edition, with Erasmus Roterodamus commentaires. Contents:- ff. A1r: title (verso blank).- ff. A2r-A4r: Dedication letter by Johannes Baptista Egnatius to Jean Grolier, the secretary of the French King.- ff. A4v-B4v: Contents of the lives of the twelve first emperors: Caesar, Octavius, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasianus, Titus, and Domitianus.- ff. B4v-B7r: Translations of Greek words in the lives of Suetonius.- ff. B7v-B8r: The live of Suetoni