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Isocrates. Isocrates nuper accurate recognitus et auctus, collation: A-K8, L4, M-P8, complete with blank leaf K8, 116ff., Greek text, woodcut Aldine device on title and on fol. P8v, blank spaces for capitals with printed guide letters, some browning and foxing, a few wormholes to the outer blank margins repaired, blank upper outer corner of the last two leaves restored, offsetting of ex-libris on front flyleaf, a few marginalia in Latin and Greek, later olive straight-grain morocco over pasteboards, signed by Rivière on bottom of front pastedown, boards framed within concentric gilt fillets, floral tools at each corner, central Aldine device in gilt, with inscription 'Aldus', board edges ruled in gilt, inner dentelles interne, marbled and gilt edges, a fine copy, folio, 302 x 192mm., Venice, Heirs of Aldus and Andrea Torresanus, 1534.

⁂ The second Aldine edition of Isocrates, whose orations were first published by Aldus in 1513, in the third volume of his great collection of Oratores Graeci. The editio princeps of the Greek orator had appeared in Milan in 1493, printed by Ulrich Schinzenzeler. The edition of 1534 faithfully reproduces the first Aldine publication, including Aldus's dedicatory epistle to Giovan Battista Cipelli, better known under the humanistic name of Egnatius (fol. A2r). However, the last leaves of the volume contain, as a new addition, the Harpocrationis Excerpta. This copy was owned in the early 1900s by the outstanding American bibliophile Robert Hoe, one of the founders of the Grolier Club, and its first president. As stated in the foreword to the sale catalogue of his marvellous collection, "he was a lover of fine bindings, and his library is rich in specimens of the work of all the great binders, ancient and modern".

Provenance: 'Francisci Santeolini' (16th-century ownership inscription on title); Caleb Scholefield Mann (1822-1882; ex-libris on front pastedown); Robert Hoe (1839-1909; ex-libris on front pastedown).

Literature: Adams O 245; Renouard 111.4. Ahamanson-Murphy 271, Cataldi Palau 13.

Description

Isocrates. Isocrates nuper accurate recognitus et auctus, collation: A-K8, L4, M-P8, complete with blank leaf K8, 116ff., Greek text, woodcut Aldine device on title and on fol. P8v, blank spaces for capitals with printed guide letters, some browning and foxing, a few wormholes to the outer blank margins repaired, blank upper outer corner of the last two leaves restored, offsetting of ex-libris on front flyleaf, a few marginalia in Latin and Greek, later olive straight-grain morocco over pasteboards, signed by Rivière on bottom of front pastedown, boards framed within concentric gilt fillets, floral tools at each corner, central Aldine device in gilt, with inscription 'Aldus', board edges ruled in gilt, inner dentelles interne, marbled and gilt edges, a fine copy, folio, 302 x 192mm., Venice, Heirs of Aldus and Andrea Torresanus, 1534.

⁂ The second Aldine edition of Isocrates, whose orations were first published by Aldus in 1513, in the third volume of his great collection of Oratores Graeci. The editio princeps of the Greek orator had appeared in Milan in 1493, printed by Ulrich Schinzenzeler. The edition of 1534 faithfully reproduces the first Aldine publication, including Aldus's dedicatory epistle to Giovan Battista Cipelli, better known under the humanistic name of Egnatius (fol. A2r). However, the last leaves of the volume contain, as a new addition, the Harpocrationis Excerpta. This copy was owned in the early 1900s by the outstanding American bibliophile Robert Hoe, one of the founders of the Grolier Club, and its first president. As stated in the foreword to the sale catalogue of his marvellous collection, "he was a lover of fine bindings, and his library is rich in specimens of the work of all the great binders, ancient and modern".

Provenance: 'Francisci Santeolini' (16th-century ownership inscription on title); Caleb Scholefield Mann (1822-1882; ex-libris on front pastedown); Robert Hoe (1839-1909; ex-libris on front pastedown).

Literature: Adams O 245; Renouard 111.4. Ahamanson-Murphy 271, Cataldi Palau 13.

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