Hardcover
1510 · [Paris]
by VERGERIUS, Petrus Paulus
[Paris]: Ex e?dibus Ascensianis ... ad nonas junias, 1510. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. [28] unpaginated leaves [56pp.], illustrated with a woodcut of printers at work on the title page and decorated initials. Text in Latin. Bound in 19th century light brown paste paper over flexible boards. Bookplate of Stanley C. Bagg [circa 1870] on the front pastedown. The spine and edges of the boards are worn, title page lightly soiled, very good or better. An attractive, well-preserved copy of a short epistolary treatise by Vergerius (1370-1444). A wandering scholar and teacher who traveled throughout Italy and Northern Europe, Vergerius wrote the first important (truncated)