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CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106 B.C.--43 B.C.)
[Works. 1783]
M. Tullii Ciceronis opera. Cum indicibus et variis lectionibus. ...
Oxonii e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1783.
10 vols ; 29.3 cm. (4º)
I: [4], 545, [67] p., engr. frontis. port.
II: 519, [147] p.
III: 426, [106] p.
IV: [2], III, 24, 20*--24*, 25--527, [53] p. : letterpress table
V: [2], 471, [143] p.
VI: [2], 498, [116] p.
VII: [2], XI, [1], 448, [68] p. : letterpress table
VIII: [2], 476, [58] p.
IX: [2], 423, [49] p.
X: [530] p.
Text based on Olivet's edition (Paris: apud Joan. Bapt. Coignard, Hipp. Lud. Guerin, Joan. Desaint, & Jac. Guerin; Londini: apud Paulum Vaillant, 1740--1742) with 'Variae Lectiones' at end of each volume, collected by T. Hearne and the anonymous editor. Olivet's notes, omitted in this collection, were later published in a supplementary volume, with title Jos. Oliveti delectus commentariorum in M.T. Ciceronis opera omnia, Oxonii, 1824. The title-pages to vols II--III read 'M. Tullii Ciceronis Operum Tomus ...'; that to vol. X reads 'Clavis Ciceroniana: sive Indices Rerum et Verborum Philologico-Critici in Opera Ciceronis. ... ', by J.A. Ernesti. Volume I contains the rhetorical works, vols II--III the philosophical works, vols IV--VI the orations, and vols VII--IX the letters. Includes in vol. IX 'M. Tullii Ciceronis Historia, per Consules Descripta, et in Annos LXIV. Distincta: per Franciscum Fabricium' and 'Desiderii Jacotii Vandoperant de Philosophorum Doctrina Libellus ex Cicerone'. The frontispiece in vol. I is a full-length portrait of Cicero 'De Marmore Pomfret. apud Oxons-', drawn and engraved by J.K. Sherwin. ESTC t111296.
Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper Ex dono honorabilis Georgii Fulke Lyttleton / Johanni Soane Architecto / Nov: 27: 1806 -. Soane worked for Lyttelton at Macartney House, Greenwich, 1802 and at Hagley, 1808 (see Dorothy Stroud, Sir John Soane architect, pp. 266, 270; Ptolemy Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, pp. [114]--123). A.T. Bolton refers to a series of correspondence between Lyttelton and Soane in the period 1805--14, some of which are reproduced in The portrait of Sir John Soane (London 1927), pp. 118--122. (See Priv. Corr. XIII.J.1). The Lytteltons were related to the Pitt family.
Binding C19th diced russia, gilt-panelled covers, gilt-ruled and blind-tooled spines direct-lettered in gilt, gilt-tooled doublures, marbled edges to match the endpapers.
Reference Number 1321
[Works. 1783]
M. Tullii Ciceronis opera. Cum indicibus et variis lectionibus. ...
Oxonii e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1783.
10 vols ; 29.3 cm. (4º)
I: [4], 545, [67] p., engr. frontis. port.
II: 519, [147] p.
III: 426, [106] p.
IV: [2], III, 24, 20*--24*, 25--527, [53] p. : letterpress table
V: [2], 471, [143] p.
VI: [2], 498, [116] p.
VII: [2], XI, [1], 448, [68] p. : letterpress table
VIII: [2], 476, [58] p.
IX: [2], 423, [49] p.
X: [530] p.
Text based on Olivet's edition (Paris: apud Joan. Bapt. Coignard, Hipp. Lud. Guerin, Joan. Desaint, & Jac. Guerin; Londini: apud Paulum Vaillant, 1740--1742) with 'Variae Lectiones' at end of each volume, collected by T. Hearne and the anonymous editor. Olivet's notes, omitted in this collection, were later published in a supplementary volume, with title Jos. Oliveti delectus commentariorum in M.T. Ciceronis opera omnia, Oxonii, 1824. The title-pages to vols II--III read 'M. Tullii Ciceronis Operum Tomus ...'; that to vol. X reads 'Clavis Ciceroniana: sive Indices Rerum et Verborum Philologico-Critici in Opera Ciceronis. ... ', by J.A. Ernesti. Volume I contains the rhetorical works, vols II--III the philosophical works, vols IV--VI the orations, and vols VII--IX the letters. Includes in vol. IX 'M. Tullii Ciceronis Historia, per Consules Descripta, et in Annos LXIV. Distincta: per Franciscum Fabricium' and 'Desiderii Jacotii Vandoperant de Philosophorum Doctrina Libellus ex Cicerone'. The frontispiece in vol. I is a full-length portrait of Cicero 'De Marmore Pomfret. apud Oxons-', drawn and engraved by J.K. Sherwin. ESTC t111296.
Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper Ex dono honorabilis Georgii Fulke Lyttleton / Johanni Soane Architecto / Nov: 27: 1806 -. Soane worked for Lyttelton at Macartney House, Greenwich, 1802 and at Hagley, 1808 (see Dorothy Stroud, Sir John Soane architect, pp. 266, 270; Ptolemy Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, pp. [114]--123). A.T. Bolton refers to a series of correspondence between Lyttelton and Soane in the period 1805--14, some of which are reproduced in The portrait of Sir John Soane (London 1927), pp. 118--122. (See Priv. Corr. XIII.J.1). The Lytteltons were related to the Pitt family.
Binding C19th diced russia, gilt-panelled covers, gilt-ruled and blind-tooled spines direct-lettered in gilt, gilt-tooled doublures, marbled edges to match the endpapers.
Reference Number 1321