Author: Quintilian, M. Fabius (35-96AD) [with notes by Carlo Rollin]
Title: INSTITUTIONUM ORATORIARUM Libri duodecim ad usum sholarum [sic] Accommodati .. Cum notis illustrati a Carolo Rollin .. Rectore Uiverstatis Parisiensis. TOMUS I + Tomus II.
Description: Paris, Fratres Estienne via San-Jacobea 1754 A few woodcut head- and tail-pieces as well as approx a dozen historiated initial capital letters including some repeats . 2 VOLUMES Duodecimo marbled leather spines gilt, with 2 gilt labels to each volume. [spine leather f.laking badly/hinges partly split with some leather loss/edges worn but covers well attached, corners on each volume very worn] All Edges Rouge. Spine more worn of VOL II.[60pp=[recte 62 as number 47/48 are repeated] includes titlepage + Preface] + Life of author + contents + salutation] +434pp Vol.2 title page + [4p=contents] + 449pp + [43pp of index] + [1p=approbation] ownership of Miguel& Eyaralar and JWB Chenery to either side of both free front endpapers + printed ownership label of don Jose Ayensa y Munarris to rear free endpapers. Latin text with foot- and side-notes and 3 old neat latin marginal annotations to Book 10 chapter One, else three minor paper flaws otherwise a crisp neat bright copy with and interestingly late imprint of the brothers Estienne in Paris.*Quintillian studied rhetoric in Rome during Nero's reign and went on to teach the subject to both Pliny the Younger and Tacitus he also later tutored emperor Domitian's children, dying the same year as the emperor. These volumes cover 12 books of this, his most significant work.

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