Author: CICERO.
Title: Tulli Ciceronis Rhetorici libri Editio ad Manutianam & Brutinam conformata. Adiectae sunt Annotationes et Castigationes, ex variis doctorum virorum scriptis selectae.
Description: Francofurdi Apud heredes Andreae Wecheli, Claudium Marnium & Ioann. Aubrium. 1590. 8vo, 163 x 97 mms., pp. [xvi], 667 [668 errata, 669 - 671 blank, 672 printer's device, 673 - 676 blank], page 343 misnumbered 443, attractively bound in contemporary calf, decorated in an all over gilt fanfare pattern using flowers, leafy sprays and crown tools, all edges gilt and gauffered with floral pointelle decoration, 20th century French bookseller's small ticket on front paste-down end-pape (Lyon L.ARDANCHET, either Henri or Armand Lardanchet of Lyon, now Librairie Lardanchet of Paris); title-page slightly soiled, some worming of text starting on page 10 and finishing on page 55, with top of pages 29 - 47 affected with slight loss of text, old, neat repair to corners, but a very good copy. The verso of the title-page lists the contents: I. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium. Lib. IIII. II. De inuentione rhetorica. Lib. II. III. De oratore ad Q. Fratrem. Lib. III. IV. De claris oratoribus. Lib. I. qui inscribitur Brutus. V. Orator ad M. Brutum. VI. Topica ad C. Trebatium. VII. Partitiones oratoriae. VIII. De optimo genere oratorum. This edition reprints the preface from Aldo Manuzio's edition: "Ex Aldi Manutii in libros rhetoricos ad Andream Naugerium, praefatione"; and OC LC notes, "The 'Brutianam' edition has not been identified." The first work has ususally been attributed to Cicero but is now thought by classical scholars to be by an unidentified author. It is the oldest surviving book on rhetoric probably dating from the late 80 BC. This edition appears to be uncommon, with copies located only in the NLS, Huntington, and Saint Louis University Pius XII Library; Bibliotheek Universiteit Van Amsterdam, Radboud Universiteit Universiteitsbibliotheek.

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