Demosthenes. Oratione di Demostene contra la legge di Lettine, la quale toglieua uia tutte l'esentioni. Venice: [Paolo Manuzio], 1555 The Syston Park-Clark copy. 8vo (144 x 92 mm). Roman and Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: a-d8: 32 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title- page and verso of d7. (Stray spots.) binding: Nineteenth-century English green morocco (150 x 100 mm) by Storr of Grantham, gilt floral border, inner border blind, fleurons in corners, Aldine device in gilt on covers, spine with raised bands in five gilt-lettered and -decorated compartments, mauve endpapers, all edges gilt. (Lightly rubbed at extremities, with slight exposure at foot of spine.)
provenance: Sir John Thorold, 9th Bt. (1734-1815) — Sir John Hayford Thorold, 10th Bt. (1773-1831), though not in Sotheby's sale catalogue of the Syston Park Library — Charles Butler (1821-1910); his sale Sotheby's London, 25 February–5 March 1914, lot 3965 — Maggs Bros., London, bought in previous sale — Charles W. Clark (1871-1933), The Library of Charles W. Clark (San Francisco, 1914), I, pp. 37 ("green morocco gilt, full gilt back, tooled borders, with the Aldine anchor on sides, g.e. Syston Park copy") — Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia. acquisition: Purchased from John Fleming New York, 1975. references: UCLA 488; Renouard 164/3; Edit16 16747; USTC 826513
Demosthenes. Oratione di Demostene contra la legge di Lettine, la quale toglieua uia tutte l'esentioni. Venice: [Paolo Manuzio], 1555 The Syston Park-Clark copy. 8vo (144 x 92 mm). Roman and Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: a-d8: 32 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title- page and verso of d7. (Stray spots.) binding: Nineteenth-century English green morocco (150 x 100 mm) by Storr of Grantham, gilt floral border, inner border blind, fleurons in corners, Aldine device in gilt on covers, spine with raised bands in five gilt-lettered and -decorated compartments, mauve endpapers, all edges gilt. (Lightly rubbed at extremities, with slight exposure at foot of spine.)
provenance: Sir John Thorold, 9th Bt. (1734-1815) — Sir John Hayford Thorold, 10th Bt. (1773-1831), though not in Sotheby's sale catalogue of the Syston Park Library — Charles Butler (1821-1910); his sale Sotheby's London, 25 February–5 March 1914, lot 3965 — Maggs Bros., London, bought in previous sale — Charles W. Clark (1871-1933), The Library of Charles W. Clark (San Francisco, 1914), I, pp. 37 ("green morocco gilt, full gilt back, tooled borders, with the Aldine anchor on sides, g.e. Syston Park copy") — Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia. acquisition: Purchased from John Fleming New York, 1975. references: UCLA 488; Renouard 164/3; Edit16 16747; USTC 826513
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