Ad veram sapientiam introductio autore Joan: Ludovico Vive [sic] ejusdem Satellitium animi, sive symbola, principum institutioni potissimum destinata. ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540
Language:Latin
Published: Dublinii ex officina Georgii Grierson 1730
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Collection:Benjamin Iveagh
Description
Item Description:1397
Physical Description:143 p. 12 cm.
Binding Note:Binding: contemporary Dublin red morocco, gold-tooled to an over-all design, using quadrant fan tool as central motif, border roll and single fillet. The spine has four bands and five gold-tooled compartments, with the author's name tooled in the second. comb-marbled endleaves and gilt edges. Illustrated in Craig, plate 19. Joseph Leathely's tools 46, 54, 57 and 151 and roll 22 as identified by McDonnell and Healy are used.
Bibliography:Woodcut title motif, initials and ornamental line. A very fine copy. Bookplates of the Earl of Oxford, H. Mortimer Davis and J.R. Abbey. First published in 1524 as 'Introductio ad sapientiam'. N2 AR16