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ERASMUS, Desiderius (1466-1536). De recta Latini Graecique sermonis pronunciatione... Erasmi... dialogus. Eiusdem Dialogus cui titulus, Ciceronianus, sive, De optimo genere dicendi. Cum aliis nonnullis, quorum nihil non est novum. Basel: Officina Frobeniana, March 1528.
8° (163 x 109mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and colophon leaf, that on the title coloured by an early hand. Woodcut initials. (Small rust-hole in e3.) Contemporary alum-tawed pigskin, tooled in blind (some light scuffing, ties lacking, three endpapers detached). Provenance: unidentified early hand (extensive marginal notes, copy of a letter from Andreas Osiander [1498-1552] to Johannes Peteius, dated Nuremberg 1527, printed in Osiander, Gesamtausgabe II, ed. by Gerhard Müller, p.521-2).
FIRST EDITION. The first treatise is on the pronunciation of Greek and Latin but includes a definition of what constitutes a liberal education; it is considered to be Erasmus's most important work on the subject. The second work sets out to prove that none but Cicero can be considered a Ciceronian, ending with a list of writers of elegant Latin, both classical and contemporary. This work provoked protests from his contemporaries and affected his standing amongst the humanists. The final section includes a lament on the death of Johannes Froben, and epitaphs on Martin Dropius. Adams E-351.
8° (163 x 109mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and colophon leaf, that on the title coloured by an early hand. Woodcut initials. (Small rust-hole in e3.) Contemporary alum-tawed pigskin, tooled in blind (some light scuffing, ties lacking, three endpapers detached). Provenance: unidentified early hand (extensive marginal notes, copy of a letter from Andreas Osiander [1498-1552] to Johannes Peteius, dated Nuremberg 1527, printed in Osiander, Gesamtausgabe II, ed. by Gerhard Müller, p.521-2).
FIRST EDITION. The first treatise is on the pronunciation of Greek and Latin but includes a definition of what constitutes a liberal education; it is considered to be Erasmus's most important work on the subject. The second work sets out to prove that none but Cicero can be considered a Ciceronian, ending with a list of writers of elegant Latin, both classical and contemporary. This work provoked protests from his contemporaries and affected his standing amongst the humanists. The final section includes a lament on the death of Johannes Froben, and epitaphs on Martin Dropius. Adams E-351.