Cicero, Rhetoricorum ad Herennium libri IIII, Venice, Aldus, 1521, black morocco gilt by the Mendoza Binder

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. In hoc volumine haec continentur. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium lib. IIII. M. T. Ciceronis De inuentione lib. II. De oratore ad Quintum fratrem lib. III. De claris oratoribus, qui dicitur Brutus lib. I… De optimo genere oratorum praefatio quaedam. Venice: heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, October 1521

A reprint of the 1514 Aldine edition. An almost identical binding, on a 1525 Venice Giunta imprint, is illustrated in A. Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting, p.101.

8vo (203 x 131 mm). Italic type, 39 lines. collation: *-**⁸ a-k⁸ l⁴ m-z⁸ A-G⁸ H¹⁰: 262 leaves. (Title somewhat soiled, some intermittent marginal dampstaining.)

binding: Contemporary Venetian black morocco by the Mendoza Binder (Andrea di Lorenzo?) (222 x 143 mm), sides paneled in gilt and blind, a central gilt arabesque stamp outlined with blind fillets and with gilt fleurons in corners, spine with later gilt lettering in one compartment, a repeated blind design in the others, stubs from four pairs of ties. (Restoration at ends of spine and along joints, bookplate removed from front pastedown.) In a cloth folding case.

acquisition: Purchased from Hamill & Barker, Chicago, 1962. references: UCLA 207; Cataldi Palau 75; Edit16 12215; Renouard 93/13