Cicero, Verrinae, Florence, Giunta, 1515, contemporary Roman blind-tooled morocco

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tulii Ciceronis Verrinae. (Florence: Filippo Giunta, January 1515)

[Bound with:] M. T. Ciceronis Philippicae. (Florence: Filippo Giunta, September 1515)

Filippo Giunta produced a total of four editions of Cicero in 1515, Epistolae familiares and Orationes in addition to the present two works.

2 works in one volume, 8vo (163 x 100 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: Verrinae: a-z & [con] [rum] A⁸: 216 leaves. Philippicae: a-n⁸ o⁴, a2 blank: 108 leaves. Woodcut Giunta device on final verso of each work. (Occasional light foxing, first title-page almost detached.)

binding: Contemporary Roman tooled morocco (170 x 105 mm) by Paolo de Bernardino Bancheli (active between 1503 and 1523), central six-pointed star within a frame of leafy tendrils, spine with blind fillets, edges gilt and gauffered to a knotwork design, hand watermark in lower pastedown. (Head of spine chipped, foot of spine repaired, corners rubbed, gilding on binding mostly rubbed away.)

acquisition: Purchased from Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum, Milan, 2013. references: Edit16 12200 & 12198; Pettas, Giunti of Florence, 79 & 78; Renouard, xl/79 & xxxix/71