Gilded Cicero
CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
Epistolarum ad Atticum, libri XVI. Eiusdem epistolarum ad Q Fratrem, libri III. Incerti auctoris epistola ad Octavium non est enim Ciceronis. T. Pomponii Attici vita, per Cornelium Nepotem. Ex emendatione D. Lambini ... Paris, Jean Bienné, 1573.
8vo, pp. [2], 3431–4131 [1 (blank)]; woodcut printer’s device to title-page, woodcut initials, ruled in red; some light browning, but a good copy; bound in contemporary Parisian limp vellum gilt, covers with arabesque centre- and cornerpieces within a border of double gilt fillets, flat spine with gilt fillet bands and small floral stamp with manuscript lettering, fore-edge flaps, edges gilt, stubs from two pairs of fabric ties; slightly rubbed and marked.
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Epistolarum ad Atticum, libri XVI. Eiusdem epistolarum ad Q Fratrem, libri III. Incerti auctoris epistola ad Octavium non est enim Ciceronis. T. Pomponii Attici vita, per Cornelium Nepotem. Ex emendatione D. Lambini ...
A finely bound copy of Cicero’s letters to Atticus and his brother Quintus, the sixth of a nine-volume set of Cicero’s works printed by Jean Bienné in 1572–1573, edited by the great French classical scholar Denis Lambin.
Included in this volume are the anonymous letter to Octavian (probably written in the third or fourth century as a school exercise), and the life of Atticus by his friend Cornelius Nepos, written towards the end of Atticus’ long life, just shortly after the victory of Octavian at Actium.
The printer Jean Bienné (d. 1588) had previously worked for Guillaume Morel, whose device he adopted and whose widow Barbe he married. He worked closely with Denis Lambin, professor of Latin and then Greek at the Collège royal.
USTC 171094 (just this volume) & 116707 (the set of nine volumes).