QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius (c. 35-95). Institutiones oratoriae. Edited by Ominibonus Leonicenus. [Venice: Printer of the 1480 Valla, about 1480].

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QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius (c. 35-95). Institutiones oratoriae. Edited by Ominibonus Leonicenus. [Venice: Printer of the 1480 Valla, about 1480].

Chancery 2 (274 x 191mm). Collation: s2 a-b8 c-s6.8 t-z8 &8 A6 B8 C6 D4 (r blank, v-2v table, a1r blank, a1v editor's dedicatory letter, D4 blank). 201 (of 202, without final blank) leaves. 39 lines, table in two columns. Type: 1:112r and 112 Greek. 2- to 7-line initial spaces. (First quire rehinged, marginal tear repaired, two blank corners renewed, small stain at hinge of last few leaves.) 18th-century French red morocco, triple gilt fillet around sides, gilt spine in compartments, black leather lettering-pieces in three, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: a few contemporary annotations; collation note in French signed (?)SMGC; George Watson Taylor (pencilled ascription in Amherst's hand, sale Evans 20 March and 14 April 1823); Augustus, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843, bookplate, sale 22 April 1845); William Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835-1909, sale Sotheby's 24 March 1909, where the binding was tentatively ascribed to Derome and Crevenna posited as a previous owner, lot 785, 5.15 to Sotheran's); Viscount Mersey (Bignor Park, booklabel).

Fifth edition, reprinting Jenson's 1471 edition. A handsome copy, formerly gracing the collections of Taylor, Sussex, Amherst, and Mersey. HCR 13644; BMC VII, 1137 (IB.21288a-b, 21289); IGI 8262; Goff Q-28.