Martyrolgium Romanum

Ad novam Kalendarii rationem, & Ecclesiasticæ historiæ veritatem restitutum, Gregorii XIII. Pont. Max. iussu editum.

Title and text printed in red and black, with an engraved vignette on the title.

8vo. [185 x 121 x 42 mm]. [12]ff, 408pp. Bound in contemporary brown goatskin, the covers with a gilt interlinking roll border flanked by blind fillets and with a gilt square-shaped ornament in the corners and a gilt fleuron at the centre, metal catches and back plates. Spine divided into five panels, each tooled with the square ornament in gilt and the top panel covered with a paper label lettered in manuscript, plain pastedowns, gilt and gauffered edges. (Spine faded, slightly rubbed and stained, lacking clasps and front free endleaf). Stock no. ebc1435.
Antverpiæ [i.e. Antwerp]: ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1586.

This edition is not listed in Adams, but there is a copy in the British Library, along with another Plantin edition of 1608. Neither of these is attributed to an author, but Cardinal Caesar Baronius is named as the author of a work with the same title which was published in Rome in 1586 (in folio), Venice in 1587 (in quarto) and in Antwerp by Plantin in 1589 (as a folio), and also in Cologne and Paris.

This copy is in fine condition, in the original unrestored binding, with handsomely gauffered edges.
Ink stamps of "ES" and Donaueschingen.