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Author: [Quintilian] Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius: (Burmann, P., ed.:)

Title: De Institutione Oratoria libri duodecim, cum animadversionibus virorum doctorum [...]

Publication: Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Isaacum Severinum, 1720.

Description: 3 vols bound as 1. First edition thus. 4to., pp. [lxx], 1178, [l] + engraved frontispiece. Title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Occasional light spots and smudges, an occasional leaf (eg. 2A4) very toned, some pages a bit dusty towards top edge. Later prize vellum with prize certificate bound in, Spine gilt with raised bands, gilt borders, frames and centrepiece arms of Amsterdam to boards, edges sprinkled red and blue. Spine a little greyed, rear centrepiece slightly worn, a few smudgy marks, ties lost, very good. In pencil, to blank preceding frontis, 'Amsterdam, 2 Novembre 1946'. Certificate with large engraved arms of Amsterdam, made out to Jan Wilem Tilanus and dated 1839.

Pieter Burmann's edition of the 1st century AD grammarian Quintilian, hugely influential in the Renaissance. Dibdin writes that 'by this elaborate edition of Burman, the celebrity of all former commentators has been eclipsed. We are here presented with the unedited notes of Almeloveen, Gallaeus, Turnebus, Gibson, and Obrechtus; the "Annales Quintiliani" of Dodwell, the various readings of three MSS never before collated, and the emendations of Peter Franciscus: all these materials are to be found in the first volume. The second vol., comprehending the "Declamations", displays the diligence and correctness of the editor, in his excerpts from every work and MS before collated: very copious indexes accompany it. The prefaces of Campanus, Aldus, Gibson, and others, are carefully inserted; and Burman has given a tolerably ample and correct review of all the editions of Quintilian: he, however, mistook the editio princeps, supposing it to have been in 1468.'

Bibliography: Dibdin (4th edn.) II, 368-9; Schweiger III, 844; Spoelder 10.

Reference Number: [54919]

Price: £300

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	Author: [Quintilian] Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius: (Burmann, P., ed.:) Title: De Institutione Oratoria libri duodecim, cum animadversionibus virorum doctorum [...] Publication: Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Isaacum Severinum, 1720. Description: 3 vols bound as 1. First edition thus. 4to., pp. [lxx], 1178, [l] + engraved frontispiece. Title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Occasional light spots and smudges, an occasional leaf (eg. 2A4) very toned, some pages a bit dusty towards top edge. Later prize vellum with prize certificate bound in, Spine gilt with raised bands, gilt borders, frames and centrepiece arms of Amsterdam to boards, edges sprinkled red and blue. Spine a little greyed, rear centrepiece slightly worn, a few smudgy marks, ties lost, very good. In pencil, to blank preceding frontis, 'Amsterdam, 2 Novembre 1946'. Certificate with large engraved arms of Amsterdam, made out to Jan Wilem Tilanus and dated 1839. Pieter Burmann's edition of the 1st century AD grammarian Quintilian, hugely influential in the Renaissance. Dibdin writes that 'by this elaborate edition of Burman, the celebrity of all former commentators has been eclipsed. We are here presented with the unedited notes of Almeloveen, Gallaeus, Turnebus, Gibson, and Obrechtus; the "Annales Quintiliani" of Dodwell, the various readings of three MSS never before collated, and the emendations of Peter Franciscus: all these materials are to be found in the first volume. The second vol., comprehending the "Declamations", displays the diligence and correctness of the editor, in his excerpts from every work and MS before collated: very copious indexes accompany it. The prefaces of Campanus, Aldus, Gibson, and others, are carefully inserted; and Burman has given a tolerably ample and correct review of all the editions of Quintilian: he, however, mistook the editio princeps, supposing it to have been in 1468.' Bibliography: Dibdin (4th edn.) II, 368-9; Schweiger III, 844; Spoelder 10. Reference Number: [54919] Price: £300 enquire << Back
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