Aphthonius, Hermogenes, Aristotle and others [Rhetores graeci]. Rhetores in hoc volumine habentur hi. Aphthonii sophistae Progymnasmata. Semipagina 1. Hermogenis Ars rhetorica. 19. Aristotelis Rhetoricorum ad Theodecten libri tres. 161. Eiusdem Rhetorice ad Alexandrum. 235... ([vol. II:] In Aphthonii Progymnasmata commentarii innominati autoris. Syriani Sopatri Marcellini commentarii in Hermogenis rhetorica). Venice: Aldo Manuzio, November 1508-May 1509
Editiones principes of this group of texts and commentaries on rhetoric, or oratorical theory, including Aristotle’s Poetics and Rhetoric, which were not included in the Aldine Aristotle of 1495-1498. The size and layout are based on Aldo’s editio princeps of the greatest of the Athenian orators, Demosthenes (November 1504): Royal quarto, thus slightly smaller than Super-Chancery folio; 46 lines of text plus headline; paginated. The title-page of the first volume is also a table of contents, with the major texts indicated by their page (Aldo: semipagina) numbers.
2 volumes, Royal 4to (280 x 177 mm). Greek type, 46 lines plus headline. collation: [I:] π8; A-Z8 AA-ZZ8, paginated [II:] 18 26; a-z8 &8 A8 B10, paginated: 376 + 224 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-pages and final verso (otherwise blank). A few early annotations in Greek in different hands (more in volume 2). (Worming at start of volume 1, first title somewhat soiled, final leaf of volume 2 slightly soiled, slight damp-staining at end of volume 2.)
binding: Early eighteenth-century English chestnut morocco gilt (290 x 190 mm), spines gilt in compartments, gilt edges. (Extremities slightly rubbed, joints cracked, spines slightly chipped.)
provenance: Philip Yorke, first earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), armorial bookplate — Charles W. Clark, The library of Charles W. Clark (San Francisco, 1914), I, p.105. acquisition: Purchased from John Fleming New York, 1963. references: UCLA 99 & 104; Aldo Manuzio tipografo 102 & 106; Edit16 2146; Renouard 54/4
Aphthonius, Hermogenes, Aristotle and others [Rhetores graeci]. Rhetores in hoc volumine habentur hi. Aphthonii sophistae Progymnasmata. Semipagina 1. Hermogenis Ars rhetorica. 19. Aristotelis Rhetoricorum ad Theodecten libri tres. 161. Eiusdem Rhetorice ad Alexandrum. 235... ([vol. II:] In Aphthonii Progymnasmata commentarii innominati autoris. Syriani Sopatri Marcellini commentarii in Hermogenis rhetorica). Venice: Aldo Manuzio, November 1508-May 1509
Editiones principes of this group of texts and commentaries on rhetoric, or oratorical theory, including Aristotle’s Poetics and Rhetoric, which were not included in the Aldine Aristotle of 1495-1498. The size and layout are based on Aldo’s editio princeps of the greatest of the Athenian orators, Demosthenes (November 1504): Royal quarto, thus slightly smaller than Super-Chancery folio; 46 lines of text plus headline; paginated. The title-page of the first volume is also a table of contents, with the major texts indicated by their page (Aldo: semipagina) numbers.
2 volumes, Royal 4to (280 x 177 mm). Greek type, 46 lines plus headline. collation: [I:] π8; A-Z8 AA-ZZ8, paginated [II:] 18 26; a-z8 &8 A8 B10, paginated: 376 + 224 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-pages and final verso (otherwise blank). A few early annotations in Greek in different hands (more in volume 2). (Worming at start of volume 1, first title somewhat soiled, final leaf of volume 2 slightly soiled, slight damp-staining at end of volume 2.)
binding: Early eighteenth-century English chestnut morocco gilt (290 x 190 mm), spines gilt in compartments, gilt edges. (Extremities slightly rubbed, joints cracked, spines slightly chipped.)
provenance: Philip Yorke, first earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), armorial bookplate — Charles W. Clark, The library of Charles W. Clark (San Francisco, 1914), I, p.105. acquisition: Purchased from John Fleming New York, 1963. references: UCLA 99 & 104; Aldo Manuzio tipografo 102 & 106; Edit16 2146; Renouard 54/4
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