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Cicero: : [...] Epistolae Familiares, diligentius, qua’m quae hactenus exierunt, emendatae. Pauli Manutii scholia [...]

8vo. ff. 267, [x]; [xli]. Lacks final leaf, with the device on the verso. The Aldine dolphin and anchor device is present on the title, the verso of the final leaf of the first part (text) and on the divisional title of Manutius’ scholia. Old paper repair to 2L8 affecting one or two letters of text. Old ownership inscriptions to the foot of the general title, letters numbered in the margin in an old hand, handwritten subject index compiled on the largely blank pages at the end of the text. Old plain calf, with some wear to spine but still sturdy. Floral end-papers and armorial bookplate ‘Comes de Solms’.

Paulus Manutius, the son of Aldus, established a reputation for himself as a Ciceronian scholar and after he took over the press at the end of the 1530s Cicero dominated the list of Aldine publications. There were a number of editions of the Epistolae Familiares, but as Renouard mentions, they are found less frequently than those written to Atticus. Renouard presumed that this was beacuse they were read and reread as models of Ciceronian style. This edition has a revised text and an additional leaf of scholia discussing earlier editions., Renouard p. 127 (1543, 3). Brunet II, 46.

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