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CICERO, attributed to. Rhetorica ad C. Herennium. - CICERO (106-43 B.C.). De inventione. Edited by Omnibonus Leonicenus (d.1493). Venice: Nicolas Jenson, 1470.
Royal half-sheet 4° (270 x 179mm). Collation: [Ad Herennium: 1-610 78 (1/1r text 7/8v explicit); De inventione: 8-1410 (8/1 text, 14/10r colophon, 14/10v blank)]. 68; 70 leaves; 13/7,8 reversed in binding. 30 lines. Type: 1:115R. Three-quarter illuminated scrolling foliate border on blue ground with white dots on first page, laurel wreath with rosette infill in lower border, 5-to 6-line illuminated book initials similarly decorated, 2- to 3-line initials and paragraph marks alternating in red and blue, incipits to each part and part one, book three in burgundy ink. (Neat marginal repairs in first and last two leaves and 7/5, repaired tear in 7/6 with some text supplied in facsimile, lightly washed with initials off-setting.) 19th-century crimson morocco gilt by Koehler, sides panelled with triple fillets, spine with stipple ornament, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (mottled).
FIRST EDITION OF BOTH TEXTS, and one of the first four books printed by Jenson, second printer at Venice. The two rhetorical treatises are closely related and are often found together both in manuscript and print. Jenson's edition was edited by the Ciceronian scholar, Ognibene da Lonigo, one of the most respected Latinists of his day. It is printed with Jenson's roman fount which 'has exerted such an influence on later typography that it has become enshrined as an ideal form of clarity, beyond the touch of time' (M. Lowry, Venetian Printing, 1989, p.76). H *5057; GW 6709 and 6733; BMC V, 166 (IB. 19607-9); BSB-Ink A-817; Goff C-644 and C-672.
Royal half-sheet 4° (270 x 179mm). Collation: [Ad Herennium: 1-6
FIRST EDITION OF BOTH TEXTS, and one of the first four books printed by Jenson, second printer at Venice. The two rhetorical treatises are closely related and are often found together both in manuscript and print. Jenson's edition was edited by the Ciceronian scholar, Ognibene da Lonigo, one of the most respected Latinists of his day. It is printed with Jenson's roman fount which 'has exerted such an influence on later typography that it has become enshrined as an ideal form of clarity, beyond the touch of time' (M. Lowry, Venetian Printing, 1989, p.76). H *5057; GW 6709 and 6733; BMC V, 166 (IB. 19607-9); BSB-Ink A-817; Goff C-644 and C-672.
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