De Officiis ad Marcum filium. >>NOTABLE MINIATURE BOOK <<

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Published by Barbou, J. Lutetiae., 1773

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346 pages printed in Latin on blue tinted paper. Engraved frontispiece after J.M.Moreau, engraved by N. le Mire. 6-point type by Fournier le jeune. Each page, even the blank versos of the half and full title pages, set within elegant decorative typographical borders. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. 65 x 90mm. Contemporary ruby morocco; spine in hand decorated gilt compartments with five gilt raised bands, author and title in gilt within double fillet gilt borders (head and tail slightly rubbed; hinges slightly cracked); wonderfully patinated boards with triple gilt fillet borders and floral pointille cornerpieces (corners a little worn). This is a significant eighteenth-century miniature book, due to Pierre Simon Fournier's typeface typesetting within generous margins. Nauroy, 35. Spielmann, 94. Welsh, 1896.

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De Officiis ad Marcum filium. >>NOTABLE MINIATURE BOOK <<

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Barbou, J. Lutetiae.

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1773

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Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

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Very Good

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Jason Burley, an accredited full member of the ABA and of ILAB, has owned his own bookshop continuously since 1984, been a past Chair of the PBFA (London) for over four years and exhibited at the PBFA monthly Russell Hotel antiquarian bookfairs & other specialist bookfairs for over a decade. At Firsts London 2024, the Rare Book Fair Committee selected Jason of Camden Lock books for the Award of Best Display of the four-day event. Jason is also co-founder and co-owner of Burley and Fisher Books LLP. - located between Haggerston and Dalston Kingsland Stations, the bookshop has an events space with a bar where we hold over 100 literary events each year, a basement of second-hand books, and a Risograph Printing department. Our stock of new books includes independent publishers and local authors, with general, collectable second-hand books, as well. Our older, rare books include collectable miniature books, our specialism.

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