CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
De Officiis … libri tres, ex editione Oliveti Parisiis vulgata.
London, T. Payne, 1791.
8vo, pp. viii, 219, [1]; title-page and final blank browned, else a very good copy in early nineteenth-century stiff vellum by Antoine Chaumont, with his ticket, covers panelled gilt, roll-tool borders, spine gilt with several neoclassical tools, lettered directly, purple moiré silk endpapers, gilt dentelles, gilt edges; neat repair to front joint; presentation inscription ‘a mon ami Richard / Leon de Maleville 1838'.
First Payne edition, edited by Henry Homer (1753–1791). A friend of the writer and schoolmaster Samuel Parr since his days at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Homer produced editions of Livy, Tacitus, Sallust, Pliny the Younger, and others.
Provenance: Jean François Léon de Maleville (1803–1879), politician; in 1838 he was a deputy under the July Monarchy – the recipient has not be identified. Antoine Chaumont was ‘one of the most important of the 1800–1820 binders’ (Ramsden, French Bookbinders, pp. 52-53).
ESTC T143306.