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ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS.
In Novum Testamentum ab eodem denuo
recognitum, Annotationes, ingenti nuper accessione per autorem locupletatae.
Greek and Latin text. Title, first page of preface, and first page of text within woodcut his-
toriated and ornamental borders by Ambrosius Holbein and Hans Holbein the Younger.
[8], 579, [1]
pages. Folio, 322x212 mm, contemporary Cambridge binding of blind-tooled
calf over wooden boards by Nicholas Spierinck, center panel of vertical grif-
fin/wyvern/lion and diaper rolls enclosed by frame of intersecting impressions of the
griffin/wyvern/lion roll, with repeated impressions of fleuron tool around the periphery,
spine lettered in blind in the 19th-century, brass catches, lacking clasps, spine ends and
cover corners restored, endpapers renewed, vellum leaves from a 14th-century Latin manu-
script missal bound in as flyleaves; light marginal dampstaining, tiny wormholes not
impairing legibility, scattered early marginalia, dark stain in outer margin of index leaves,
Greek and Latin quotations and mottoes in later 16th-century hand on rear flyleaf.
Signature of Robert Pemberton dated 1642; bookplate of K. J. Hewett.
Basel: (Johann Froben, March) 1519
[2,500/3,500]
Issued to accompany the 1518 second edition of Erasmus’s Greek New Testament, considerably
enlarged from the 1516 original edition. The Dutch-born Cambridge binder Spierinck was
active in the first 4 decades of the 16th century. Folio-size examples of his work are uncommon
outside institutional collections. Darlow & Moule 4597; PMM 46; Oldham, English Blind-
Stamped Bindings AN.f(2), DI.a(2), 115; see also lot 75.
