Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria, [Lyon, Jacques Myt? for Barthélemy Trot?], 1510, early nineteenth-century English olive morocco gilt floral border

Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius. Quintilianus. [Lyon: Barthélemy Trot?], 25 June 1510

A rare early Lyonese edition of Institutio Oratoria, edited with an introduction by the humanist and typographer Geoffroy Tory.

8vo (163 x 94 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-z⁸ &⁸ aa-yy⁸ zz¹⁰: 378 leaves. Red fleur-de-lis to title-page, guide letters in initial spaces. (Repair to corner of ii1-2, z10 and rear endleaf loose, repair to hole on title-page and smaller hole to first three quires, occasional areas of spotting.)

binding: Early nineteenth-century English olive morocco gilt floral border (170 x 101 mm), spine with six compartments gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, gilt edges. (Spine restored, a little scuffed.)

provenance: possibly Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield & Coventry (1774-1839), inscription on endleaf citing Renouard; his sale, Christie's London, 1-10 June 1840, lot 1655 — George Dunn (1865-1912), ex libris; his sale, Sotheby's London, 22-29 November 1917, lot 3648; purchased by — Francis Edwards, London — Paul Howard Beves (1921-1983), ex libris dated 1961 — Christie's South Kensington, 23 April 1999, lot 87 — Bernard Quaritch, Early books & manuscripts - Autumn 2005, item 58. acquisition: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, London, 2005. references: UCLA 1138; Renouard 310/32; FB 84087; USTC 143701; Baudrier, VIII, 420; Gültlingen, II, p.105: 7; Shaw 47