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Cicero, Works, in 4 volumes.

Printed at Paris by the Royal Printer, Carolus Stephanus (Charles Estienne), 1555.

Noteworthy for the sober mise en page, elegant woodcut initials and a scholarly apparatus showing collation with a ‘uetus exemplar’ and other printed editions.

Cent Rare Folio PA 6278. A2 1555 (1-4).   On the title pages are the names of early owners, Robert Meres and Georgius Antonius.  With the plate of George Gregory of Bath, Bookseller to H. M. Queen Alexandra [1863-1910].  Bought by the British orientalist F. L. Woodward and presented to the University Library by his executors, September 1952.

 

 

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