细节
August 1514
QUINTILIAN. De institutione oratoria. Ed. Andrea Navagero. Narrow 4° (211 x 128mm). Collation: *4 (1r title M.F. Quintilianus and Aldine device 5, 1v dedication, 2r-3v table of contents, 4 blank); a-z A-E8 F6 (text, F6r register and colophon, F6v device 5). 234 leaves. Italic type 1:80. 39 lines and headline. Initial-spaces with guide-letters. (Tiny fault to verso of title affecting a few letters.)
PREFACE: Dedicated to Giovanni Battista Ramusio (Treviso 1485-1557 Padua), orientalist, ethnologist and famous geographer, author of Delle navigationi e viaggi 1550-59. Aldus writes that if anyone deserves this dedication, it is Ramusio. Besides being learned and modest, he is extremely helpful in seeking (and finding) ancient manuscripts. Thus he has furnished one for Quintilian, which Navagero just edited, working at speed to keep up with the pressmen. Throughout, Ramusio was his faithful helper and companion, as Achates to Aeneas.
BINDING: late-18th-century English red straight-grained morocco gilt, harp tool in compartments of spine, key-border roll-tooled on turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. PROVENANCE: quotation from Demosthenes in a 16th-century hand; Wilmot, 1st Earl of Lisburne (d. 1800), armorial bookplate.
FIRST ALDINE EDITION, reprinted in 1521. Quintilian describes in this notoriously difficult text -- edited by Navagero under great pressure -- the education of an orator, fom cradle to grave. FINE COPY. Isaac 12840; Adams Q-52; Dionisotti & Orlandi LXXXVI; Murphy 106; Sansoviniana 146-47; Laurenziana 126; R 68:5
QUINTILIAN. De institutione oratoria. Ed. Andrea Navagero. Narrow 4° (211 x 128mm). Collation: *4 (1r title M.F. Quintilianus and Aldine device 5, 1v dedication, 2r-3v table of contents, 4 blank); a-z A-E8 F6 (text, F6r register and colophon, F6v device 5). 234 leaves. Italic type 1:80. 39 lines and headline. Initial-spaces with guide-letters. (Tiny fault to verso of title affecting a few letters.)
PREFACE: Dedicated to Giovanni Battista Ramusio (Treviso 1485-1557 Padua), orientalist, ethnologist and famous geographer, author of Delle navigationi e viaggi 1550-59. Aldus writes that if anyone deserves this dedication, it is Ramusio. Besides being learned and modest, he is extremely helpful in seeking (and finding) ancient manuscripts. Thus he has furnished one for Quintilian, which Navagero just edited, working at speed to keep up with the pressmen. Throughout, Ramusio was his faithful helper and companion, as Achates to Aeneas.
BINDING: late-18th-century English red straight-grained morocco gilt, harp tool in compartments of spine, key-border roll-tooled on turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. PROVENANCE: quotation from Demosthenes in a 16th-century hand; Wilmot, 1st Earl of Lisburne (d. 1800), armorial bookplate.
FIRST ALDINE EDITION, reprinted in 1521. Quintilian describes in this notoriously difficult text -- edited by Navagero under great pressure -- the education of an orator, fom cradle to grave. FINE COPY. Isaac 12840; Adams Q-52; Dionisotti & Orlandi LXXXVI; Murphy 106; Sansoviniana 146-47; Laurenziana 126; R 68:5