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95 - Cornelius Tacitus. Five Books Recently Discovered and Published Together with His Other Works. Milan, Minuziano, 1517. An extremely rare, unauthorized reprint of the first complete edition, as well as the subject of the first known legal dispute regarding copyright
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Cornelius Tacitus. Five Books Recently Discovered and Published Together with His Other Works. Milan, Minuziano, 1517. An extremely rare, unauthorized reprint of the first complete edition, as well as the subject of the first known legal dispute regarding copyright Cornelius Tacitus. Five Books Recently Discovered and Published Together with His Other Works. Milan, Minuziano, 1517. Quarto (195 x 130 mm); [10], CCXXXIII (correctly 235), [13] leaves. Initial letters with guide letters; numerous ancient handwritten annotations throughout the text (a small loss due to an ink stain; restoration to the upper corner of the last leaf with partial loss of text). 17th-century half-parchment binding, smooth spine with title stamped in gold. A highly valuable edition edited by Beroaldo, the first to contain the text of the first six books of the Annals from the manuscript that Arcimboldo had acquired from the Abbey of Corvey for Pope Leo X. Minuziano managed to obtain the printing sheets and produced this pirated edition. The resulting legal case—some documents from which are included at the end of this volume—represents the first documented legal dispute regarding copyright. Extremely rare, unauthorized reprint of the complete first edition, as well as the first known copyright legal dispute
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