Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M.T.C. Epistolae familiares. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, April 1502
Exceedingly rare first Aldine edition, and the first printing of any of Cicero’s works by Aldo. Only one other copy has appeared at auction in the past 50 years: Renouard’s own copy, printed on vellum and illuminated by a contemporary artist (Christie’s London, 28 November 2001, lot 27, also bound by Charles Lewis .
8vo (156 x 98 mm). Italic type, 30 lines. collation: a-z8 aa-kk8 ll4: 268 leaves. Initials supplied in alternating red and blue penwork, the first colored and heightened in gold.
binding: Purple straight-grained morocco by Charles Lewis (160 x 102 mm), with his stamp, spine blind-tooled in compartments with gilt lettering, gilt edges. (Joints and lower board edges worn.)
provenance: Richard Heber (1773-1833), inscriptions on flyleaf, sale, Evans, 23 March-14 April 1835, lot 726, £15-5s, to Payne & Foss — Edward Clive Herbert, 2nd Earl Powis (1785-1848), note on flyleaf dated 1835, sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 20-22 March 1923, lot 392, to Bernard Quaritch — Estelle Doheny (1875-1958), morocco bookplate, sale, Christie’s New York, Part IV, 17 October 1988, lot 1016. acquisition: Purchased at preceding sale via E.P. Goldschmidt & Co. references: UCLA 55; Edit16 12160; Renouard 33/2
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M.T.C. Epistolae familiares. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, April 1502
Exceedingly rare first Aldine edition, and the first printing of any of Cicero’s works by Aldo. Only one other copy has appeared at auction in the past 50 years: Renouard’s own copy, printed on vellum and illuminated by a contemporary artist (Christie’s London, 28 November 2001, lot 27, also bound by Charles Lewis .
8vo (156 x 98 mm). Italic type, 30 lines. collation: a-z8 aa-kk8 ll4: 268 leaves. Initials supplied in alternating red and blue penwork, the first colored and heightened in gold.
binding: Purple straight-grained morocco by Charles Lewis (160 x 102 mm), with his stamp, spine blind-tooled in compartments with gilt lettering, gilt edges. (Joints and lower board edges worn.)
provenance: Richard Heber (1773-1833), inscriptions on flyleaf, sale, Evans, 23 March-14 April 1835, lot 726, £15-5s, to Payne & Foss — Edward Clive Herbert, 2nd Earl Powis (1785-1848), note on flyleaf dated 1835, sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 20-22 March 1923, lot 392, to Bernard Quaritch — Estelle Doheny (1875-1958), morocco bookplate, sale, Christie’s New York, Part IV, 17 October 1988, lot 1016. acquisition: Purchased at preceding sale via E.P. Goldschmidt & Co. references: UCLA 55; Edit16 12160; Renouard 33/2
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