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Classics. Quintilian (Marcus Fabius), Camerarius (Joachim, editor) & Sichard (Johann, editor), M. Fabii Quintiliani rhetoris clarissimi, oratoriarum Institutionum libri XII, Basileae: Apud Haeredes Nicolai Brylingeri, 1568, [bound with], M. Fabii Quintiliani oratoris eloquentissimi declamationum Liber, Basileæ: Ex Officina Brylingeriana, 1578, second title-page with printer's device, historiated initials, complete, collating: a-z⁸ A-Z⁸ ²A-E⁸ ²F⁵; a-s⁸ t³, i.e. [viii], 728, [36]; [ii], 292pp, the first part with a small amount of contemporary/contemporaneous marginal manuscript glosses, slight annotation and underlining, contemporary Swiss Renaissance binding of vellum over wooden boards, blind-stamped and rolled, the centre of the upper-cover enclosing an indistinct monogram, both covers outlined in fillets enclosing a foliate border with amorini masks, Western and Eastern European portrait profiles, five of the latter monogrammed HW, the whole centred by a profusion of further foliage and leafy capitals, four-compartment spine of raised bands, manuscript labels, red edges, lacking clasps, recto pastedown with contemporaneous script in ancient Greek, ffep with 1760 Latin ownership inscription, verso pastedown with 18th/19th c ancient Greek MS, 8vo; Naisl (Aemilianus), Speculum cleri utriusque, tam saecularis, quam regularis, three parts in one, Coloniæ Agrippinæ: Arnoldi Metternich, 1710, half-title, divisional titles, double-column, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, retaining one clasp, 4to, (2)
Provenance: 2nd: Ex Bibliotheca Venerab: Conv: Glasguensis: Frat: Min de Obs: Rec:ad Immac: Concep: B.M.V: ad Litt/The Friary, Cumberland Street, Glasgow, S.S.; rubricated bookplate, c 1900, recto pastedown.
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