M. Fabii Quintilliani De Institutione Duodecim ad Codicum Vetrum Fiden Recensuit et Annotatione. Explanavit Georg. Ludovicus Spalding...
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Lipsiae Sumptibus Siegfried Lebrecht Crusii 1798, 1803, 1803, 1816. 4 volumes, Royal 8vo, 228 x 127, beautifully bound (by John Clarke, the partner of the binder Francis Bedford), with stamp in blind on lower margin of front paste-down end-paper in volume one) in contemporary full purple morocco, with the gilt emblems of the Reverend Theodore Williams (d. 1827) on each cover, spines gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, and with the bookplate of the distinguished British book collector Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785 - 1861) on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume. A clipping from either an auction house or a bookseller, probably around 1960, has this note "The best and most complete of all the editions. It was undertaken with such a quantity of valuable materials as no critic had ever possessed, and is published with unprecedented care and industry; the critical marks are so happy and the explanations so apposite that it is generally considered the chef d'oeuvre of German criticism. Furhman." Furhman is probably the German classical philologist Manfred Fuhrmann (1925 - 2005). The German Georg Ludwig Spalding (1762 1811) began producing this edition of Quintilian in 1798 and was the editor of the first three volumes. Philipp Karl Buttmann (17641829) published the fourth volume after Spalding's death, and there were two further volumes by Karl Gottlob Zumpt (17921849) and Eduard Bonnell (18021877).
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- M. Fabii Quintilliani De Institutione Duodecim ad Codicum Vetrum Fiden Recensuit et Annotatione. Explanavit Georg. Ludovicus Spalding...
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- Lipsiae Sumptibus Siegfried Lebrecht Crusii 1798, 1803, 1803, 1816
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- Paste-down
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- Bookplate
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- Gilt
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- Morocco
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