


ALDINE PRESS CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M.Brutum, ad Quintu fratrem, 8vo, 1558-9; and 2 others, Aldine (3)
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ALDINE PRESS
Footnotes
The Euripides is a counterfeit Aldine printed in Lyon.
Provenance: First, Wm. Dixon, nineteenth century ownership inscription on title; unidentified writer of most of the ink annotations; A.M. Woodward (1883-1973, archaeologist and classical lecturer), pencil inscription dated Nov. 1949; Second, Samuel Butler (1774-1839), Bishop of Lichfield, his sale 'Bibliotheca Butleriana' ("the most extensive series ever submitted to Public Sale, of Books printed by Aldus Pius Manutius", catalogue introduction), Christie's, 1-9 June 1840, lot 746, tipped-in printed catalogue entry on front free endpaper; indecipherable ownership inscription dated 1875; Ernest Swain, bookplate.