Cicero, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-]: Rhetorica ad C. Herennium.

Add:  Pius II, Epistola ad Gregorium Heimburgensem;  Epistola ad Johannem comitem de Lupfen.

[Cologne:  Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, ca. 1471-1472]
Fol.   a-e⁸ f-g⁶.   [52] leaves (g6 blank).
ISTC ic00674000;  GW 6712;  Goff C674;  BMC V p. x (IB. 3458);  BMC(Ger) p. 210;  Bod-inc C-210;  CIBN C-463.

Dated [ca. 1471-1472] from the types (CIBN C-463);  dated [ca. 1473] by GW, Goff and Bod-inc.
Proctor assigned to [Venice, press of Vindelinus de Spira] (see BMC V p. x).

GIP number:	C60
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.2.29 (see main library entry for this item)
Note:	Printer's pin-holes visible.
Note:	In this copy there is no printed text on d5r and the missing text has been supplied in manuscript in a 15th/16th-century hand.
Provenance:	Anthony Askew (1722-1774), physician and classical scholar:  Askew sale, 13 Feb. 1775 onwards;  lot 1382 ‘Ciceronis Rhetorica, sine Anni, Loci vel Typographi Indicio’ in Bibliotheca Askeviana … (London:  Baker & Leigh, 1775). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  purchased by Hunter for £3.4.0 according to the annotated British Library copy of the Askew sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 6*(3). University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ab.9.14”.
Binding:	18th-century mottled calf;  covers decorated with a single gold-fillet border;  gold tooled-spine;  marbled endpapers;  sprinkled blue-edged leaves;  green silk bookmark.   Size:  277 x 203 mm.
Leaf size:	271 x 195 mm.
Annotations:	Frequent marginal annotations in an early hand in quires a and b, all deliberately washed out - to judge from the resulting marginal stains;  several interlinear annotations in brown ink in an early hand, a few deliberately washed out.
Decoration:	None.
Imperfections:	g2 excised (stub visible);  wanting the blank leaf g6.