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Lot 9

BINDING - TUDOR CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS)
Rhetoricorum ad Caium Herennium libri quattuor, 8vo

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BINDING - TUDOR

CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) Rhetoricorum ad Caium Herennium libri quattuor, title and next leaf softened with loss, Paris, J. de Prato for P. Goudoult and sold by F. Regnault, 1520; MELANCHTHON (PHILIPP) Institutiones rhetoricae, Basel, Adam Petri, 1522; ERASMUS (DESIDERIUS) De duplici copia, Strasbourg, Johannes Knobloch, 1522, 3 works bound in 1 vol., light waterstain throughout, contemporary marginalia and manuscript index at end, contempory calf by Garrett Godfrey of Cambridge, covers stamped in blind [Oldham, Blind Panels, RO18 and HE31; Nixon, Five Centuries, 8], rebacked, joints cracking, lacking ties, rubbed, 8vo

Footnotes

Nixon notes that the two cover panels are found as a pair "on all fourteen bindings" where the Tudor rose panel appears; "we may be reasonably certain that this book was bound in Godfrey's shop, since he is referred to by Roger Ascham in his Toxophilus as 'Garret our bookebynder'".

Provenance: Various early pen trials and ownership inscriptions including those of John Jones and John Taylor. See illustration on preceding page.

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