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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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Gottingen: Gottingae apud Abram Vandenhoeck, 1738. hardcover. very good(-). Rubricated title page, occasional foxing. [xxxvi], 640, [240] indexes. Thick 4to, full brown calf, hinges weak, covers rubbed. Gottingen: Gottingae apud Abram Vandenhoeck, 1738. Very good.<br/><br/> Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was a famous Roman advocator and orator. Quintilian wrote and published his one surviving work, Institutione Oratoria, in twelve books. It describes the life and training of an orator from birth until maturity. Book 12 sums up the discussion of an ideal orator by elucidating the personal and moral characteristics "a good man who knows how to speak" (Quintilian quoting Cato the Elder). Quintilian insisted on eloquence as a moral force, but was most concerned with good content to help shape sensible men.<br/><br/>

Oxoniae ( Oxford ): e Theatro Sheldoniano: Impensis Henrici Cruttenden Typographi, 1693. The First Gibson edition. Near Fine, pages lightly browned, text block in excellent condition. 20th century half calf over marbled boards , matching marbled end pages, 5 raised bands with gilt lines, blindstamp of American Antiquarian Society title page, from the library of King George II, with John Pine Royal Library medium bookplate verso of title page. ( "John Pine (1690-1756), engraver. The Royal Library bookplate In 1736 John Pine was paid nearly £38 for engraving and printing 28,200 bookplates in four sizes to be added to the King’s books. Featuring Apollo and Minerva flanking the University’s arms, the bookplate was usually pasted to the back of the title page or on a front endpaper. It is also found in some post-1715 publications which were purchased using the proceeds from later sales of duplicates within the collection; these were, after all, also acquired Munificentia Regia, through… Read More

Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), apud Isaacum Severinum, 1720, Cont.full leather, worn, Engr. frontispiece, titlepage in red and black, (67), 1178, (50) pp. (2 parts).4to. Complete. * Description of the life and training of an orator from birth until maturity, by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus c. 35- c.96).