[Fasti] P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum Libri Diligenti Emendatione

Venetiis [Venice]: In aedibus solertissimi uiri Ioannis Tacuini de Tridino, 1520. Very Good. Venetiis: In aedibus solertissimi uiri Ioannis Tacuini de Tridino, 1520. Folio (30cm.); full modern dark brown blind-embossed calf to style, spine in seven compartments, new endpapers, all edges stained red; [10],187ll. (collated complete); title page printed in red and black within decorative border, six woodcut vignettes in text, initials throughout. Title page margins expertly repaired, though bottom edge is trimmed affecting decoration, a few leaves expertly repaired, uneven soiling and shallow damp staining throughout textblock, small loss at top fore-edge corner of leaf 2Av slightly affecting text, else a Very Good, sound example in a fine new binding. Imprint taken from colophon in rear.

Uncommon edition of Ovid's lengthy poem in six books the Fasti, also known as the Book of Days or the Roman Calendar. This work applies the standard format of an annotated edition by placing the text of the poem at the center of the page with commentary in double columns surrounding it. Only the six books devoted to the first six months of the year survive, each book in this edition opening with a two- or three-paneled woodcut vignette.

Provenance: 20th-century ex libris of H.P. Fraser and Arthurian collector Nathan Comfort Starr.