Cicero, Epistolae familiares, Milan, Pachel, 1509, old vellum

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Epistolarum familiarum libri xvi. Cum Huberti Clerici & Martini Philetici explanationibus diligenter ab Ascensio recogniti. (Milan: Leonhard Pachel), 28 (26) June 1509

folio (298 x 207mm.), woodcut printer's device of Giovanni Giacomo da Legnano (depicting a teacher or writer in a toga with four scribes), later Spanish vellum, modern spine lettering, first few leaves damaged and repaired in lower corner, small marginal tear to p3, small holes in last two leaves with slight loss, some staining or foxing, text block detached from binding, lacking two pairs of ties

This particular edition does not seem to be recorded in any of the standard bibliographies, though it does appear in Worldcat.

LITERATURE

cf Edit16 12167 (1507 Scinzenzeler & Legnano edition)

PROVENANCE

"D[octo]ris Petri Berne et Cebriani", inscriptions on title-page; Luis Bardon, bookseller's label