Cicero, Orationum tomus primus, Lyon, 1546, contemporary Roman binding by Guillery

CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Orationum tomus primus. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1546

Another small format Lyon printing of Cicero in a contemporary Italian binding.

16mo (126 x 72mm). Roman and italic types, 29 lines plus headline. Collation: a-z⁸ A-Z⁸ aa–dd⁸ (last leaf blank): 400 leaves. Title with woodcut printer’s device. (Title page soiled and holed with loss.)

Binding: Contemporary Roman binding by Marcantonio Guillery, a frame of 2 interlaced gilt fillets, filled with scallop shells, double volute at outer angles and mid-points, in central compartment large leafy tool in corners, in centre an oval cartouche containing "M.T.C./ ORATIO/NES/ .TOM./.I.", above and below oval 2 small dolphins, spine with 3 bands fleur-de-lis in compartments, edges gilt and gauffered. (Spine restored at head and tail.)

Provenance: Inscription "?Be. Forinetti" on title — Gérard Emmanuel Marie Copin de Miribel (b. 1921), bookplate — Ader Tajan & Claude Guérin with Dominique Courvoisier, Très beaux livres anciens; bibliothèque d'un amateur, Paris, 4 June 1993, lot 27. Acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. References: USTC 122847; von Gültlingen, V: Gryphe 920