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Estienne.- pseudo-Quintilianus.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Declamationes, quae ex CCCLXXXVIII. supersunt, CXLV. Calpurnii Flacci excerptae X. Rhetorum minorum II. Nunc primae editae. Dialogus de oratoribus... Ex bibliothecae P. Pithoei, collation: à8 è6 A-Z, Aa-Gg8, title with woodcut printer's device (with an early green wash applied), woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, some mostly light staining at head, occasional spotting, contemporary limp vellum, remains of leather ties, 8vo (167 x 109mm.), Paris, Robert Estienne, 1580. ⁂ First Estienne edition. 'The discovery of new manuscript evidence allowed Pierre Pithou (1539-96) to publish 9 'Declamationes' for the first time here - before his discovery only 136 were known. The volume also contains the editio princeps of the fragmentary 'Declamationes' of Calpurnius Flaccus, as well as a new recension of the 'Dialogus' of Tacitus, based on Pithou's new manuscript sources" (Schreiber). Provenance: Contemporary ink inscription at head noting that the volume had been entered into a catalogue. Literature: Adams Q49; Renouard, Estiennes, 182:1; Schreiber 255.