[Rarebooks] FS: Early treatise by Quintilianus. Cologne: 1528

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Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius. ORATORIARUM INSTITUTIONU[M] LIBRI DUODECIM, 
Summa tum Diligentia, tum Indicio, ad Vetutstissimoru[m] Quorunq[ue] 
Exemplariorum Fidem Recogniti. Cologne: Joannes Soter. 1528. Sm. 8vo. (16),568pp. 
Woodcut printer's device on title and final leaf. Historiated woodcut initials. 
Cont. vellum, hand lettered spine (a bit darkened). Small loss at bottom 
blank margin of R8 (text unaffected). Donation inscription on a blank 
preliminary. A very nice copy.     $1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
"The only pedagogical treatise of antiquity to be preserved... where the 
skills of the orator are not divorced from the tasks of forming his mind and 
developing his virtues." ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE, p. 272. Not 
in Adams or BM German STC.

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