Demosthenes, Orationes, Venice, Sons of Aldo, 1551, late eighteenth-century English calf, from the Bibliotheca Sussexiana

Demosthenes. Demosthenis Orationes quatuor contra Philippum, a Paulo Manutio latinitate donatae. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1551

Reprint of the 1549 edition of Paolo Manuzio’s translation of the four Philippics of Demosthenes.

4to (190 x 135 mm). Roman type, 25 lines plus headline. collation: A-N⁴: 52 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page. (Title with restoration not affecting type, and with small hole and stain to lower corner, some minor foxing.)

binding: Late eighteenth-century or early nineteenth-century English calf (196 x 150 mm), signed E.D. Dowes, Binder, Salop, boards with blind-tooled border flanked by gilt rules, inside dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, grey endpapers. (Rebacked, a bit rubbed.)

provenance: S. Benedetto, Bergamo (Capuchin monastery), inscription on title-page — Augustus Frederick, Royal Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); his sale, R.H. Evans, London, 30 January-10 February 1845, Part IV, lot 586 — Leonard Charles Price (1855-1946), bookplate to pastedown, and possibly his note on front free-endpaper, "from the library of the Duke of Sussex." acquisition: Purchased from Phillp J. Pirages, McMinnville, OR, 1997. references: UCLA 414; Renouard 151/8; Edit16 16744; USTC 826510