CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS.
De officiis. Venice: Bernardinus Rizus, Novariensis and Bernardinus Celerius, October 12, 1484.
Folio (285 x 205 mm). 182 ff. a-o8 p-r6 s8 t-z6 &6 ɔ8. Full contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink. First leaf reinforced at gutter, worming to first four leaves, mild spotting and thumbing throughout; spine spotted with some wear, 35 mm cut to tail of spine, shelfwear.
Provenance: Early marginalia throughout.
Venetian imprint of Cicero's essay De Officiis, on the moral obligations of the human race. Reprinted from the de Tortis edition of March 1484, this edition includes the author's De officiis, De amicitia (Laelius), De senectute (Cato maior), and Paradoxa, and the commentaries of Petrus Marsus, Omnibonus Leonicenus, and Martinus Phileticus. The volume is printed in roman throughout, with guide letters in the spaces for capitals (unaccomplished); Cicero's text is printed in a large point size and is surrounded on three sides by commentary in a smaller one. The register and printer's device are found on the recto of the last leaf. The recto of leaf a1 is blank, the text of the prefatory matter beginning on the verso. Goff C601; Hain 5274.
