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DOLET, ÉTIENNE. Dialogus de imitatione Ciceroniana, adversus Desiderium Erasmum Roterodamum. 197, [3] pages, including final leaf with printer's device on verso. 4to, 222x154 mm, old vellum-backed paste-paper boards, covers slightly warped; title rehinged, marginal dampstaining throughout worsening toward end, wormtrail through blank lower margins in first half of volume. Bookplate of Paul Schmidt; signature of John Burns dated 1939. Lyon: Seb. Gryphius, 1535
first edition of a polemical dialogue defending Cicero's style as a model of Latin prose, written in response to Erasmus's 1528 Ciceronianus, a critique of excessive Ciceronian imitation in contemporary writing. Dolet (1509-46) was a humanist scholar and printer burned at the stake for alleged heresy. Contemporaries of Erasmus I, 394-96.
