Author: Quintilian, M(arcus) Fabius
Title: INSTITUTIONUM ORATORIARUM LIBRI XII Summa Diligentia Ad fidem .. BOUND WITH: ORATORIS ELOQUENTISSI MI DECLAMATIONES Undeviginti.
Description: Lyon, Seb. Gryphium 1549, 1549 with Gryphium's griffin printer's mark to both titlepages + large Gryphon to final leaf. There are also several small figural initial letters . 2 Volumes in One 8vo vellum ink title to spine (worn to tips/split at lower cover fore-edge for 1/3 of the way) Edges sprinkled Blue. 646pp + (120pp = index) + 269pp + [2p = blanks] + large Gryphon on the verso of the final page of the last gathering. The front free endpaper has been glued onto the front pastedown and the First titlepage has paper missing below the imprint and date with a maximum loss of 2.5cm of paper along the bottom edge tapering down towards the spine. There is thus NO LOSS of print but probably removal of an inked inscription of which C.M & g remain. There are printed marginal notes throughout augmented by some neat ink notes and about 15 leaves with neat underlining. The second volume has no underling and no marginal ink notes. Marginal damp marks,mainly to beginning of first work and end of second work but the paper remains crisp and strong. There is some, mainly marginal, worming affecting the text on about a dozen leaves but the text is still legible.

Keywords: oratory, teaching Roman literature, rhetoric


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