uide-letters left for initials. Renouard, p. 120.

Except for the interval 1533-6 the press was inactive from 1529 to 1540,
on account of dissensions between the heirs of Andrea and Aldus. The
partnership having been dissolved the press was reopened in 1540 by the
sons of Aldus (_apud Aldi filios_) under the direction of the youngest,
Paulus Manutius (1512-74), who restored and added to its lustre. Of
Cicero, his favorite author, he revised the entire text and printed
repeated editions of some of the works: e.g. of the _Epistolae ad
Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem_ not less than ten, of which
this is the first. The brief scholia he expanded later into full and
valuable commentaries, on the Letters to Atticus in 1547, on the Letters
to Brutus and Quintus in 1557.

It was Petrarch who in 1345 discovered in a Verona MS. the long lost
Letters to Atticus, Brutus and Quintus and copied them with his own
hand. Both the MS. and Petrarch's copy are lost. But of the MS. another
transcript, procured by Petrarch's friend Salutati in 1389, is preserved
in the Laurentian Library, and of the Petrarch copy we have here a
replica in the type which Aldus characterized as _manum mentiens_.

From the Syston Park library, with book-plate. Bound by Roger Payne, in
blue morocco, gilt edges. Leaf 6-1/2 x 4 in.

32. CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Orationes. Venetiis, apud Aldi filios, 1546.

TITLE: M. TVLLII CICERONIS ORATIONVM PARS I. [Aldine anchor] CORRIGENTE
PAVLO MANVTIO, ALDI FILIO. VENETIIS, M.D.XLVI. _Fol. 308^a_, COLOPHON:
VENETIIS, APVD ALDI FILIOS, M.D.XXXXVI.

Octavo. 4 unnumbered preliminary leaves, containing title and
preface of Paulus Manutius addressed to Cardinal Benedetto Accolto,
303 numbered leaves of text and a final leaf with register and
colophon on the recto and anchor on the verso. Italic letter, 30
lines to the page, five-line spaces with guide-letters left for
initials. Renouard, p. 136.

The second edition of the Orations printed by Paulus, vol. I only (II,
III wanting), on large paper. Renouard (who knew of no complete copy of
the three volumes l.p.) remarks, p. 141, on the too elongated form of
most of the Aldine large paper octavos, in which all the increased space
is at the bottom. In the present copy it is divided between the bottom
and the outer margin, the inner margin and the top having no increase of
width--an arrangement well adapted for marginal annotations and per