Fe.3.05(01)
[Institutiones oratoriae. 1538]
M. Fabii Quintiliani oratoris eloquentissimi, Institutionum oratoriarum libri XII, post omnes omnium editiones singulari cum studio tum iudicio doctissimorum virorum ad fidem vetustissimorum codicum recognit iac restituti. Addita sunt Petri Gallandii argumenta singulis omnium librorum capitibus præfixa, cum varijs notis capitum membra distinguentibus & lectorem rerum scitu dignarum admonentibus.
Portion of title: Institutionum oratoriarum libri XII
M. Fabii Qvintiliani oratoris eloquentissimi, Institvtionvm oratoriarvm libri XII
Parisiis. : Apud Geruasium Cheuallonium., 1538 [mense Octobri.].
[8], 128 leaves ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Woodcut printer's device on title-page.
Leaf 23 misnumbered as 22.
Signatures: [cross]⁸ a-v⁶ x⁸.
First edition by Pierre Galland, which was reissued in 1542, 1543, 1544, 1546, 1548, etc.
Bound (and probably issued) with: M. Fabii Quintiliani oratoris eloquentissimi Declamationes vndeuiginti. Parisiis : Apud Geruasium Cheuallonium. 1583.
Moreau, V, 1047
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
18th-century brown sprinkled calf binding; gold-tooled spine with five raised bands; red leather spine-label.
Earlier ink ownership inscription (illegible) and doodle on title-page, washed out.
Rhetoric, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Oratory Early works to 1800.
Galland, Pierre, 1510 - 1559 editor.
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
France Paris.
B32152