Cicero, Tusculanae, Florence, Giunta, 1508, later vellum, Boutourlin copy

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Tusculanae [edited by Luca Della Robbia]. (Florence: Filippo Giunta, September 1508)

8vo (160 x 95mm.), italic text, later vellum, some early annotations, title-page slightly soiled with two small holes and washed inscription at head

An Aldine imitation, though this text was only printed by the Aldine Press in 1523. The editor was the nephew of the ceramicist Luca Della Robbia, and this is one of several texts he edited for the Giunta press. It is dedicated by Della Robbia to Girolamo Benivieni.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 12175; Renouard p.xxxv/24

PROVENANCE:

Count Dmitri Petrovich Boutourlin (1790-1849, director of the Imperial State Library), bookplate, catalogue of his Florence library (1831), no.231, his sale (third part), Paris, Silvestre, October 1841, lot 200; M. Ch. Corrard, inscription at head of flyleaf (perhaps Charles Corrard, 1822-1866 of the Ecole normale?); extract from bookseller's catalogue pasted to verso of front flyleaf; D.L. Cumming, inscription on verso of front flyleaf