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155
July 1983
Pageant Book, NYC
$12.50
Livius, Titus (with 59BC -17AD)
Historiae Romanae decades. (ed. by Marcus
Antonius Sabellicus)
Venice: Phillippus Pincius, For Lucantonio Giunta
3 Nov. 1495 Mediah folio (313x201mm)
Ref: Goff L247 HC 10141 BMC V 496 Essling 34
Cop: HEHL, NYPL(S) Liber Sextus Giiii
Tertiae Decadis CXLIIII
274 leaves, the last blank, 22-273 numbered II-CCLIII
601 + headline 243 (251)x152mm (with marginalia 171 mm)
Type:[inserted] Small text type with small capitals. Single Qu. In use 195+6 [end inserted] 80Ab. Woodcut capitals borders round 1st page
of each decad. Woodcuts (171) in text 3 full page cuts Title Decades 1, 3+4.

Philippus Pincius (Venice) - 1490 to end of century.
A. Sabellieus - Professor of eloquence at Venice in 1494 +
distinguished alike as historian, antiquarian + classicist -
prominent humanist.
Book Six (389-367 B.C.) - The execution of M. Manlius Capitolinus.
- A major problem for the early printers was the distribution of their
books. The most important centers of printing, therefore, are to be
found in the great trading cities, and, anove all, in Venice.
Venice in the 15th C was not unlike England in her greater days:
governed by an oligarchy, with traditions of independence + a
comparative freedom from the Inquisition that
favoured the expression of thought. The Venetians had worked out
banking systems, double-entry book-keeping + the technique fo
commerce when most Britians were living in mud huts.
Here printing 1st really developed as a business, + about
presses had been founded by 1500.
Books VI-XV deal with the subjugation of Italy before the conflict with
Carthage.
- many of the smaller woodcuts (those signed F) had been
specially made for the version in Italian, printed in 1493 + were
used in this ed. Other cuts (signed b or .b.) were borrowed from Giunt's
Malermi Bible.

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