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Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IIII. / Incerto auctore. Ciceronis De inuentione libri II. ; De oratore, ad Q. fratrem libri III. ; Brutus, siue, de claris oratoribus, liber I. ; Orator ad Brutum, Topica ad Trebatium, Oratoriae partitiones, Initium libri de optime genere oratorum. Corrigente Paulo Manutio.

Accession number
PML 1314
Published
Venetiis : apud Aldi filios, M.D. XLVI [1546].
Notes
This work is divided into 4 parts the first of which is preceded by the general title page while the other 3 parts each have a special title page. Each part has separate foliation and signatures; cf. Renouard.
Colophon, part I, leaf 179r dated "mense Septembri".
Signatures: A-Y⁸, Z⁴ A-Q⁸, R¹⁰ A-G⁸ A-F⁸ (F⁷blank).
Leaves 135 and 137 in second count, misnumbered 134 and 136, respectively.
Aldine device on title page and at end of each part; Italic type.
Errata statement on leaf 179 recto.
Morgan copy printed on large paper.
Description
179, [1], 136 [i.e. 137], [1], 56, 45, [3] leaves ; 8°
Provenance
Guillaume Libri (1803-1869), his sale, Sotheby's, 1 Aug. 1859, lot 649 (bound in vellum, with gauffered edges) for £29.0.0 to: James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
19th-century English gold-tooled, in Renaissance style (of the Mendoza Binder), brown morocco by Francis Bedford; rebacked. Gilt and gauffered edges (probably 16th century).
Classification
Department