Quintilianus, Institutionum oratoriarum, Venice, Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, 1521 (but 1522), Venetian olive goatskin, ca. 1550, by Fugger Binder

Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius. M. Fabii Quintiliani Institutionum oratoriarum libri XII diligentius recogniti MDXXII. Index capitum totius operis. Conuersio dictionum Graecarum, quas ipse author in Latinum non transtulit. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, January 1521 (but 1522)

A second copy of the Aldine Quintilian, in handsome Venetian goatskin by the Fugger Binder.

4to (212 x 132 mm). Italic type, 39 lines plus headline. collation: *⁴ a–z⁸ A–E⁸ F⁶: 234 foliated leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and F6v, three- and six-line initial spaces with guide letters. (Lower third of title-page remargined, dampstaining throughout, most severe at lower margins of a6–d2 and quires C–F, including fore-edges of last few leaves.)

binding: Venetian olive goatskin by Fugger Binder (220 x 144 mm), ca. 1550, covers with a frame of a single gilt fillet flanked by multiple blind fillets, small gilt leaf at outer corners, gilt rosette at inner, geometric strapwork frame formed by a pair interlacing gilt fillets, again flanked by blind, gilt floriated arabesques at corners, at top and bottom a gilt festoon of foliage with a flower, in center bowl of fruit and flower with leaves, front cover gilt-lettered above bowl ornament M.F.QVINTI | LIANVS, spine in eight compartments with three full and four half bands, decorated in blind with foliate tool, edges gilt and gauffered. (Rebacked, endpapers renewed, some restoration to extremities.)

provenance: Possibly Johann Jakob Fugger (1516–1575) — Kaiserlich-Königliche Hofbibliothek, Vienna, duplicate inkstamp, "Biblioth. Palat. Vindobon. Dupl.," on second leaf — Osborne Charles Vyse Aldis (b. 1843), inscription on title-page — Charles Butler (1821–1910); his sale, Sotheby's London, The Charles Butler Collections, 5–12 April 1911, lot 962; purchased by — Francis Edwards, London (£8) — Librairie Théophile Belin, Paris, Livres des XVe et XVIe siècles dans leurs reliures originales (Paris, 1914), item 313 (FF 1200). acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, 1978. references: UCLA 208; Adams Q56; Cataldi Palau 61; Edit16 54149; Renouard 93/14; USTC 851768; for the binding: Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Bookbindings (London, 1891), Case E, p. 27 no. 32 and Pl. 31; De Marinis, La Legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI (Florence, 1960), no. 2160bis; Anthony Hobson, Renaissance book collecting (Cambridge 1999), p. 255 (Appendix 8: Bindings by the Fugger Binder no. 18)