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Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius. ORATORIARUM INSTITUTIONU[M] LIBRI DUODECIM, Summa tum Diligentia, tum Indicio, ad Vetutstissimoru[m] Quorunq[ue] Exemplariorum Fidem Recogniti.
Cologne: Joannes Soter, 1528. Sm. 8vo. (16),568pp. Woodcut printer’s device on title and final leaf. Historiated woodcut initials. Cont. vellum, hand lettered spine (a bit darkened). Small loss at bottom blank margin of R8 (text unaffected). Donation inscription on a blank preliminary. A very nice copy. The only pedagogical treatise of antiquity to be preserved… where the skills of the orator are not divorced from the tasks of forming his mind and developing his virtues. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE, p. 272. Not in Adams or BM German STC.
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