Griffoli, Jacopo. M.Tullii Ciceronis defensiones contra Celii Calcagnini disquisitiones in eius Officia per Iacobum Grifolum Lucinianensem. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1546

8vo (150 x 100 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-I⁸ K⁴: 76 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (Inh✨erent paper flaw to outer margin of A6.)

binding: Nineteenth-century quarter morocco over red paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, edges sta🌱ined blue. (Trifle rubbed.൲)

provenance: Hon. George Matthew Fortescue (1791-1877) — Fortescue, family library, by descent to John Desmond Grenville Fortescue (1919-2017); his sale, Christie’s London, 24 March 1971, lot 142. acquisition: Purchased from Alan G. Thomas, London, 1973. references: UCLA 355; Renouard 137/13; Edit16 21776; USTC 💜834603