M[arci] T[ullii] Ciceronis epistolarum ad Atticum, ad Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, libri XX

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515, printer, Torresanus, Andreas, de Asula, 1451-1529, printer, Atticus, Titus Pomponius. Epistolae. 1513, Brutus, Marcus Junius, 85 B.C.?-42 B.C. Epistolae. 1513, Welch, Walter F., former owner. MMeT · 1513 · Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri · 3 pictures

Aldine printer's device of 1513 from Cicero's letters, issued in Venice by Aldus Manutius and his father-in-law Andreas Torresanus for a learned humanist readership. The three pictures show the anchor and dolphin device with the motto ALDVS, printed in woodcut on the title page and in a later copy, plus a heraldic motto cartouche with ribbon and shield; a designer might take the compact emblem logic of a stable anchor entwined with a dolphin.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

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