M. Fabii Quintiliani Institutionum oratoriarum libri XII
Quintilian's Institutio oratoria, twelve books on rhetoric, printed in Venice in 1522 by the Aldine press with Andrea Torresani, a scholarly edition for students of Latin oratory. The two pictures are the Aldine dolphin-and-anchor printer's device, a woodcut with the letters AL and DVS, and a later bookplate with a coat of arms on a cream label pasted over green velvet binding. A designer can take from them a compact, emblematic mark built from an anchor and a dolphin, plus an example of heraldic bookplate design.
