Andreas Portilia was the first printer at Parma, where his press was established in 1472 and continued, with two brief transfers to Bologna and Reggio, till 1486.

Mr. Wodhull’s copy, for which he paid, at the sale of Dr. Chauncy’s library in 1790, L2.  Bound in red morocco, with rich gold tooling on back and sides, and book-plate of Charles Chauncy, M.D. (1706-1777).  Leaf 12 x 8 in.

19.  PIUS II. (AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI).  De duobus amantibus. [Paris,
    Michael Friburger, Ulric Gering and Martin Crantz, 1472.]

Fol. 1:  Aeneae siluii poaetae laureati, in hystoria_m_ de duobus ama_n_tibus p_r_aefatio prima ad perq_uam_ generosum milite_m_ Casparem Slik f[oe]liciter incipit. Fol. 2^b:  Aeneae siluii in hystoria_m_ de duobus ama_n_tibus p_rae_fatio secunda ad Martinu_m_ Sozinu_m_, Senensem, iuris utriusque p_er_spicacissimum interpretem iocunde incipit. Fol. 4^a:  Aeneae siluii de duobus ama_n_tibus hystoria perq_uam_ iocunde incipit! Fol. 44^b:  Vale. ex Vienna quinto nonas Iulii. anno Millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo quarto; COLOPHON:  Aene_ae_ Siluii po_ae_te laureati de duobus ama_n_tibus eurialo et lucresia, finit f[oe]licit_er_. Fol. 45, 46, blank.

Quarto.  Quires [1-4^{10}, 5^6], 46 leaves, the last two blank, 23 lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place, printer’s name or date.  Two- to six-line spaces left for capitals.  Claudin XIX.  Pellechet 147.  Hain 216.

Large initial on first page supplied in blue and gold, with pen ornamentation in red and blue.  Other capitals and the paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue.  Last blank leaf wanting.

This and the two next works of the present list bound with it were printed at the first Paris press, a private press set up in the Sorbonne in 1470 by Johann Heynlin, Prior, and Guillaume Fichet, Librarian, of the University, and maintained by them until April, 1473.  During these three years twenty-two books were printed, all in the same roman type, copied from the Caesar of Sweynheym and Pannartz, Rome, 1469.  In only two of them are the actual printers, Friburger and his associates, named.

To the twenty-eight 15th-century editions—­not to speak of the translations—­of this novel described by Hain, Copinger’s Supplement adds half as many more.  The present edition is perhaps the third.  Claudin, who makes it the nineteenth in the list of the Sorbonne books, could trace but four copies.  This makes a fifth.

The three books from the Sorbonne press are bound in one volume, red morocco, gilt edges, with book-plate of Sir William Burrell.  It passed from his possession some years before his death and was bought by Michael Wodhull at Payne’s sale April 7, 1789, for L4.4s.  The binder, possibly mistaking the date of the author’s subscription (Vienna, 1444) for that of the printing, has placed it on the back of the volume.  Leaf 7-3/4 x 5-1/4 in.