M. Tullii Ciceronis Orationum. Pars I [-III].

Cicero, Marcus Tullius · 1550 · Venetiis, : apud Aldi filios. · 2 pictures

A 1550 Venetian printing of Cicero's orations, issued by the Aldine heirs (apud Aldi filios) and edited by Paulus Manutius, held by the John Carter Brown Library. The title page is set in a classical roman typeface and centred within a woodcut device of two putti flanking a dolphin wound around an anchor, the Aldine emblem, with small stamps and marks from the library and a later owner; the second picture is a plain interior leaf repeating the same device, showing aged, foxed paper and a worn edge. A designer could take from it the restrained economy of Renaissance printers' marks and the symmetrical framing of roman capitals within a central ornament.

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