Accession number
PML 15437
Creator
Dio Cassius.
Published
[Venice] : [Niccolo Zoppino], MDXXXIII [1533].
Credit line
Pierpont Morgan,
Description
[6], CCLXXXII leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Notes
20 woodcuts & border to title.
Binding
16th-century French (Paris) brown calf, gold tooled with interlace and foliate pattern and painted in white, black, blue, red, and green, by the Grolier Cuspinianus Binder. Flat back with interlace pattern. Gilt edges. 4 ties, missing.
Provenance
Unidentified purchase inscription and shelfmark: "A. Feb. 1852. Catal D." (front pastedown; maybe Ashburnham, see also PML 542); Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), shelfmark: 2.C, his sale, Sotheby's, part I, 25 June 1897, lot 1392 (bindi
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