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ASCONIUS PEDIANUS, QUINTUS; et al. Commentarii in orationes Ciceronis [and other texts]. Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus. [183] (of [184]) leaves; lacks blank a1. Folio, 275x182 mm, late 17th-century red morocco gilt-tooled to panel design including outer roll border incorporating figures of musicians alternating between birds and animals, 18th-century morocco lettering pieces, Wodhull arms added in center (with gilt corroded on portion of arms on rear cover); outer sheet of each gathering reinforced in gutters, light soiling on opening leaves, with some marginalia imperfectly washed out. (Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen), [between 2 June and 12 September 1477]
first edition of the surviving commentaries on Cicero's speeches by a Roman grammarian of the 1st century A.D. Hain-Copinger 1886; GW 2739; BMC V, 232; Goff A1154; ISTC ia01154000. From the library of the poet, translator, and bibliophile Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), with his notes and signature dated 1792; by descent to John Edmund Severne (sale at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 11 January 1886, lot 221).
