Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius: (Nobbe, C.F.A., ed.:)
Title: Opera Omnia. Uno Volumine Comprehensa Curis Secundis Emendatiora et Adnotationibus Indicibusque Auctiora [...].
Description: Lipsiae [Leipzig]: sumptibus et typis Caroli Tauchnitii, 1850. Small folio. pp.v, [iii], vii, [i], 1460 + portrait frontispiece with tissue. A little faint staining to frontispiece, tissue foxed with light transfer to title-page, very good. Contemporary calf rebacked with original spine retained and one raised band repaired, blind tooled, school arms to centre of each board, marbled endpapers, cloth joints. Spine rubbed and sunned, quite scuffed, rear endpapers foxed, good overall. To front pastedown: Honour Prize bookplate from Edward VI Grammar School, Norwich to J.C. Rust dated June 1856; small booksellers' label of Galloway and Porter, Cambridge. To head of title page ownership inscriptions of J. Cyprian Rust and H.W. Moule. Karl Christoph Traugott Tauchnitz (1761–1836) founded his publishing house in Leipzig in 1798, having begun a printing business there two years earlier. Dictionaries, Bibles, and stereotyped editions of Greek and Roman Classics were Tauchnitz specialities.

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