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Hard cover, two volume set, complete, 8vo., in full calf binding, the boards framed in blind with double rules and small fleur-de-lis motifs stamped to the corners, the spines with four raised bands, double rules, including diagonal scoring at lowest compartment, all tooled in blind. Board edges rolled in small blind dots. Each volume has a separate full page illustrated engraved title page, with the motto "Ludg. Batav./Et/Roterod."Ex Officiana Hackiana. 1665. Vol. I's engraved illustrated title page shows a half man/half lion loosely chained through the tongue to a group of five men: a cardinal, perhaps, a scholar, a king or other coroneted figure, a soldier and a printer or other workman carrying a measuring tool, all in front of a carved monument statue bearing the title of the book. The chain through the tongue has been interpreted as referring to this glorification of oratory, which literally is seen holding the Dutch Republic together, where the "lion rampant" is a symbol of the Republic. The engraved title page in Vol. II likewise illustrates a Roman school of oratory, with Quintilian teaching. (ref. Simon Schama) The secondary title pages of both volumes feature the Officiana Hackiana printer's device of an eagle in flight over water with the motto "MOVENDO" (moving) in Latin, set within an architectural cartouche with Tudor style roses and other flowers. **Dutch PRINTERS Officiana Hackiana, refers to publisher, printer and bookseller Jacobus Hackius (active 1663-1698),who along with two brothers operated locations in both Leiden and Rotterdam. The engraved notation on the bottom left of the two pictorial title pages refers to this: "Ludg. Batav. et Roterod" being an abbreviated motto for "Lugdunam Bavorum;" Latin for Leiden, and Rotorrod for Rotterdam. (Royal Library of Belgium, General Catalogue). **CONDITION: Very Good antiquarian condition. Rubbing to edges and corners with some small cracks/loss to head of spines. Slight wear to joints, but holding firm. Endpapers have some wear and creasing, with two original owners' names in old ink, dated 1673 and later (undated--see below) Prelims show some wear and minor losses. Interior text is quite clean.***Roman Author QUINTILIAN (c.35 AD - c.100 AD) was a rhetorician whose most famous work is this book, the "Institutio Oratoria" (c. 95 AD). In this twelve-book guide to rhetoric, Quintilian harks back to the glory days of Cicero, and tries to establish a means by which those high standards could be regained. He describes the ideal education of an orator, and explores the different kinds of oratory. There is an entire book given over to laughter, and another to the career of an orator. COLLATION: Vol I: [34], 916, [34] pp; [], *8, **8, A-I8, K-T8, V8, X-Z8, Aa-Ii8, Kk-Tt8, Vv8, Xx-Zz8, Aaa-Iii8, Kkk-Nnn8, Ooo2, []. Vol II: [6], 784, [8] pp.; []3, A-I8, K-T8, V8, X-Z8, Aaa-Ii8, Kk-Tt8, Vv8, Xx-Zz8, Aaa-Ccc8, Ddd4. PROVENANCE: The books bear two signatures in old ink. The earliest is of Guliemi Dod, Oxon. 1673, probably William, a forefather of the second signatory: Thomas Crewe Dod (1754-1827)., Dod the younger was a Cheshire, England -born cavalry officer of the 16th Army Light Dragoons who first served in America under Gen. John Burgoyne in 1776. After returning to England, he then departed for service in India, serving thirty years with the first group of British cavalry, the 23rd Light Dragoon, to do so in that country. After 1785 he returned to England to run his estate from Edge Hall, and served other roles in Cheshire yeomanry. (L.E. Buckell) **REFS: Rijksmuseum OCLC 644683242. Appears to be the 1665 edition "Variorum" p. 368 of Dibdin Vol. II, with notes for the "Declamations" by Frederick Gronovius. See L.E. Buckell, "The 23rd Light Dragoons and Col. Thomas Crewe Dod," in Journal of the Soc. for Army Historical Research, Vol. 26, No. 107 (Autumn, 1948). Also, S. Schama, "The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age," (New York: Random House, 1988). (AJ and AMJ)
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$450.00