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[ANCIENT ROME]. [QUINTILIAN]. QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius. Oratoriarum Institutionum Libri XII... Basel: [Robertum Winter, 1543].

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$225

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[ANCIENT ROME]. [QUINTILIAN]. QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius. Oratoriarum Institutionum Libri XII... Basel: [Robertum Winter, 1543]. 4to. [24], 754, [2] pp. With the colophon leaf, but without the final blank. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin. Fore-edge clasps lacking at lower board. SCARCE 16TH-CENTURY EDITION OF QUINTILIAN. 

Condition

Spine and corners chipped, binding worn, soiled, hinges starting, ink ownership marking (dated 1597) on fp., ownership signature on ffep., text toned, with occasional minor soiling, foxing. Very good. 

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Quintilian's work is a twelve-volume textbook on the theory and practice of rhetoric, first written about 95 CE. It was widely influential in its own time, and throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Though he was less popular from the early modern period onwards, he has been praised by John Stuart Mill and modern post-structuralist critics and continues to be included in anthologies of literary criticism. A scarce edition of Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria, edited with a commentary by J. Camerarium, J. Sichard, and G. Philandrier. VD 16. Not in Adams or BL German STC. OCLC lists three locations in North America.