First Lyon Badius edition; third edition with these woodcuts and last edition to include them all. The blocks were cut for Grüninger's 1502 edition of Virgil, the first illustrated Virgil. The identity of the woodcut artist is unknown but is referred to as the Master of the Grüninger Press; the woodcut creation was supervised by Sebastian Brant, who is sometimes considered the illustrator.

This is the second Badius edition, the first printed in Paris (1500-1501) by Thielman Kerver for Jean Petit and Jean de Coblenz.

Total of 207 woodcuts from blocks designed for Johann Grüninger's Strasbourg edition of 1502, edited by Sebastian Brant; see Mortimer.

Imprint from colophon at end of part 2.

Colophon at end of part 1: Impressa sunt haec omnia Lugduni ab Jacobo Sachon, MDXVII, die vigesima mensis Augusti.

Colophon at end of part 2: Excussit Lugduni & in officina sua literatoria Jacobus Sacon: impensas aut[em] protulit bibliopolaru[m] optimus Ciriacus Hochperg, anno a Virginis partu, MDXVII, ad tertium nonas decembres.

Signatures: Part 1: [cross]¹⁰, a-2b⁸, 2c⁶; Part 2: [2cross]⁸, A-2Q⁸, 2R-2S⁶, 2T¹⁰.

Paging errors: part 1 : leaf XXXIV paged as XXXV (repeated), part 2 : leaf LXXVIII for LXXIIII (appears twice), CCCXXIIII for CCCXXII.

Titles of both volumes printed in red and black within four-part borders; title of each part in red and black within a four-part woodcut architectural border.

Roman type with headlines in gothic, shoulder notes in Roman.

Text in double columns of 71 lines (variable).

Includes one full-page plate of Virgil with Calliope and other figures.

Engraved initials.

Includes index.

Rare Book copy: Disbound

Harvard College Library. Catalogue of books and manuscripts. French 16th century books, 537

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, V468

Baudrier, H.-L. Bibliographie lyonnaise, XII, p. 344

Renouard, P. Bibliographie des impressions et des oeuvres de Josse Badius Ascensius, imprimeur et humaniste, 1462-1535, p. 370-372

Kristeller, P. Strassburger Bücher-Illustration, 99

Lawn, B. Catalogus Bibliotheca Lawnianae, p. 166

Gift; Francis J. Sypher, Jr.; 2022.