In 1496 the Venetian Senate granted to Aldus protection for his Greek type and the books printed with it for the period of twenty years, and in 1502 a like privilege covering both his italic and Greek type for ten years. A similar grant made by Alexander VI. in 1502 was renewed by Julius II. in January, 1513, for fifteen years and confirmed by his successor, Leo X., in December of the same year.
From the library of Robert Samuel Turner, sold in 1888.
Bound in red morocco extra, with gold tooling in the Grolier style, edges gilt over red. Leaf 8-1/2 × 5-1/4 in. Book-stamp on verso of last leaf: "Ex libris J.B.P.H. Caqué, D.M. Rem. 1775".
29. CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Rhetorica. Venetiis, in ædibus Aldi et Andreae soceri, 1521.
TITLE: IN HOC VOLVMINE HAEC CONTINENTVR. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium lib. IIII. M.T. Ciceronis de inuentione lib. II. Eiusdem de oratore ad Quintum fratrem lib. III. Eiusdem de claris oratoribus, q_ui_ dicitur Brutus lib. I. Eiusdem Orator ad Brutum lib. I. Eiusdem Topica ad Trebatium lib. I. Eiusdem oratoriæ partitiones lib. I. Eiusdem de optimo genere oratorum præfatio quædam. Index rerum notabilium, quæ toto opere continentur, per ordinem alphabeti. [Aldine anchor] Hos libros etiam Pontificum Alexandri, Iulij, ac Leonis demum decretis, neq_u_is alius usquam locorum impune imprimat, cautum est. _Fol. 245^a_, COLOPHON: VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI, ET ANDREAE SOCERI MENSE OCTOBRI M.D.XXI. [Blank leaf with anchor on verso].
Quarto. Sign. *, **, a-k^8, l^4, m-z, A-G^8, H^{ 10}. 16 unnumbered preliminary leaves, containing preface by Aldus addressed to Andrea Navagero and alphabetical index (the blank last leaf wanting in this copy); 245 numbered leaves of text and final blank leaf with anchor. Sign. * and ** have eight leaves each, not ten as stated in the register on p. 245. Italic letter, 39 lines to the page, three- to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left for initials. The anchor is of the second, somewhat ungraceful, pattern in use 1519-1524, after which there was for some years a return to the first form. Renouard, p. 93.
Reprinted, with only the addition of the index, from the 1514 edition of Aldus. In the preface is found the often quoted inscription placed over the door of Aldus to discourage the idle visitor: _Quisquis es: rogat te Aldus etiam: atque etiam: ut, si quid est, quod a se velis: perpaucis agas_, etc. The edition of 1533, with the imprint _in ædibus haeredum Aldi Manutii Romani & Andreae Asulani Soceri_ and a short preface by Paulus Manutius (it was his first book as director of the press) is also essentially unchanged, but his edition of 1546, in octavo, was thoroughly revised in text and accompanied by a folio volume of variorum commentaries.